Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devising better ways to free them for better teaching. As a result, Pittsburgh boasts the nation's biggest team-teaching effort (8,500 pupils), a solid start in Advanced Placement courses, "lay-reader" housewives who grade English compositions, a 25% higher salary for beginning teachers, and a 10% merit bonus for master teachers. Last year applications for teaching in Pittsburgh schools rose 65%. A skilled lobbyist, Gross quietly wrested $1,500,000 from experiment-minded foundations, got the state legislature to pass a i% wage tax for Pittsburgh schools. Gross calls himself "a three-R man," says...
...country's 1,708 independent secondary schools, with an enrollment of about 250,000, send 95% of their graduates to college, against 40% from public schools. This faith in private schools is chiefly rooted in their freedom. They can select better students. They can pay teachers by merit, make innovations, borrow ideas from anywhere. On every score they can outpace all but a few crack public schools...
...first Kemper guffawed. All he knew about Andover was that girls at nearby Abbot Academy, where his wife and his mother went, were once called "Fem-Sems" by Andover boys. For a career military man, his war had been cruelly pacific, but he had won the Legion of Merit twice and had high hopes for promotion...
...more complicated than the primitive idea of ordeal. But the ordeal is far different from the one old grads remember. Everyone still looks up to the "jock" or man with a major "A." But these days the jock has to be a lot more-an actor, a proctor, a Merit scholar. The balanced hero is in. The snob is out. "A million kids are dying to get into Andover," says one lower-middler in a falsetto voice. "A guy who just mopes his way through, boy, that's almost...
Next year Exeter's tuition will rise to $2,100, topping Andover's, partly because it spends more for instruction-it has fewer students per teacher. It also boasts more Westinghouse winners (twelve) than Andover, and this month it topped all U.S. schools in National Merit Scholarship finalists: 73 to Andover...