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...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...
...about 450 that went by Teletype or telephone to bureaus and reporters throughout the world last week. They ranged from Nation and Business inquiries about the economic situation to an Education request for a full report on a revolutionary computer teaching aid being developed in East Palo Alto...
Computerized teaching, long tested and talked about, goes into operation this week. More than 100 first-graders at East Palo Alto's predominantly Negro Brentwood School will begin learning math and reading from a good-humored, patient, quick-minded machine...
...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...