Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criteria for advanced placement within the Departments involved, the Faculty suggested College Entrance Examination Boards, placement tests conducted at the College, and secondary school records...
...interest in his students does not always receive the proper recognition, said another of the panel's speakers, Francis M. Rogers, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, talking on opportunities in teaching on the college level. Knowledge of subject matter is now the vital criterion for placement and promotion on college faculties, said Rogers, and "that may not be entirely appropriate...
Probably the most significant feature of the program is its emphasis on the superior student. American education has long been criticized for deliberately coddling the average student while his brighter or more experienced fellow marks time repeating work previously done. The new advanced placement system should end much of this repetition. A student will be able to proceed as rapidly as he is able, omitting any elementary course which examinations show to be beneath his abilities...
...qualification. Yesterday's proposals were purposely vague; the Committee is given sweeping power to map out details. The first years will necessarily be marked by the slow progress of trial and error. But consideration of the individual should never give way to a set of blanker criteria for advanced placement or course reduction. In every case, final decisions should be made on a personal basis, not on test scores...
...early admission to Harvard, most would lose valuable experience by having their undergraduate education pared from four years to three. Only in a few isolated cases is a student's background so broad that the freshman year will be of no value. This is especially true under the new placement system...