Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALABAMA: Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...
...Advanced Standing program here will take effect in the fall in three forms: advanced placement for incoming Freshmen who have done some college-level work; Sophomore standing for first-year students who have completed the equivalent of three full courses before coming to the College, and early admission for able students who have completed the eleventh grade of high school...
Comprised of 133 Harvard Clubs in the United States and foreign countries, the Association and its local clubs award prizes and scholarships, sponsor speakers from the University, and assist in the selection of undergraduates and in employment placement...
...that the research work of the Health Service, though given full Council encouragement, be financed by means other than the compulsory student health fee; 14) that emotional research findings be supplied to freshman advisers, tutors, Alston Burr Senior Tutors, the Bureau of Study Counsel, and the Office of Student Placement...
Then, in the late spring of the senior year after most colleges have notified their applicants of admission or rejection, Fells would have the Board give the achievement and advanced placement tests. These would be used solely to place students in courses. They would also conclude the sequence with a precise reckoning of ability in specialized subjects. "The tests should make it easier for colleges to place freshmen accurately in their various courses," Fells said...