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Charles A. Braun of New York (History and Literature); Douglas M. Campbell of San Carlos, Calif. (Mathematics); Robert F. Carter Jr. of Chattanooga, Tenn. (English); William V.B. Damon of Cambridge (Social Relations); Robert C. Finch of Cambridge (English); J. R. Huntsberger of Palo Alto, Calif. (Economics); Roger A. Lewin of Cleveland Heights O. (Social Studies); W.F. Marzluff Jr. of Stanford, Conn. (Chemistry); Mack Phillips of Newton (History); Jeremy D. Pool of Menlo Park, Calif. (Social Relations); Jon M. Rosenblatt of New York (English); Roger E. Rosenblatt of Alexandria, Va. (Social Relations): S.L. Saltonstall of Boston (History and Literature) and Robert...
...long atom-smashing model called SLAC (TIME, July 22). SLAC, which stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator, is just beginning its experimental program. Yet last week Stanford Physicist Alan Schwettman reported in Washington that a prototype of an improved and more advanced linear accelerator had been successfully tested on the Palo Alto campus...
...Invidious Comparisons. To frame the tests, Carnegie set up an exploratory committee of educators and executives, headed by Ralph W. Tyler, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. The committee decided to examine 256 population groups, broken down into four age levels (9, 13, 17 and adult); four geographic areas; two income levels; sex; and urban, suburban and rural divisions. This would be done by sampling techniques in which only 5% of an age group would be tested and no single student would be likely to encounter more than a single half...
...LEONARD P. WITTLINGER St. Mark's Episcopal Church Palo Alto, Calif...
...each student tutoring that matches his unique needs. Confronted with 20 or 30 kids at once, the teacher simply cannot achieve that goal. "Computer technology," says Dr. Patrick C. Suppes, 44, director of Stanford's Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences and developer of the East Palo Alto system, "provides the only serious hope for accommodating individual differences in subject-matter learning...