Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is any other way toward peace." The two leaders agreed to increase cultural exchanges, promised vaguely to explore increased trade. On summit talks, the U.S. would not commit itself. But most U.S. experts thought that summit talks would probably follow another go-around at the-foreign ministers' level, where the Camp David understandings would be tested. Said Khrushchev: "The Soviet government and myself feel the time is ripe. I am prepared to go anywhere. Perhaps Geneva is the place...
...famous study, published in Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, (1950) was their first project done with a control group of non-offenders. Five hundred delinquents and 500 non-delinquents ranging in age from 11 to 17, were matched case for case by age, residence in underprivileged areas, ethnic origin, and intelligence level. The Gluecks systematically compared 402 factors in the youths' family and home backgrounds, school history, leisure-time and interests. Their development health history, physical condition and body structure, underlying personality, temperamental traits, and the quality of their intelligence were also recorded...
...Newton High School system of lectures and seminars has its parallel at the grade school level in the "Team-School in Lexington. This endeavor represents the third SUPRAD objective, finding means of attracting and holding highly qualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...
...SUPRAD investigators and Lexington teachers believe that many learning activities on the grade school level, such as group singing and listening to a report or program, are such that little, if any, harm would be done if they were conducted en masse. Making class size flexible should also render much easier the institution of homogeneous and heterogenous grouping and individual instruction in the elementary grades...
Overcowding in lower level General Education courses is expected to even out by the end of the week, according to Barry D. Karl, Secretary to the Committee on General Education. Karl discussed the factors which have contributed to the crowded conditions which exist particularly in the Social Sciences courses...