Word: placement
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Unfortunately for both Harvard and the General Education program, little is likely to come of Professor Murdock's recent expression of interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...
...immediate difficulty is the actual process of exemption. Harvard's program is unique, and it would be virtually impossible to get a national testing program. The tests would have to be written, administered, and graded by the General Education Committee or the Advanced Placement Office, and neither would especially relish...
...slight modification of Bruner's proposal, Von Stade suggested a linking of the Advanced Placement Program with the seminar program. Freshmen should have several opportunities throughout the year to enter the seminar program, he said, and one of these opportunities should occur at the beginning of the year. He recommended that Freshmen be chosen for immediate entrance on the basis of Advanced Placement Examinations and that others "filter in" as evidence of their capabilities is shown...
Some students need "real incentive to get their teeth into course work," von Stade continued. Nothing that 11 of the 15 Freshman in Group 1 at the end of the first semester had not received Advanced Placement in any course, he suggested that Bruner's seminar program might be offered as a reward for achievement...
...situation is further complicated by the rapid upward trend of Advanced Placement students. In the last three year, participants in this program have increased from 13 to 31 to 55, and this trend, said Bender, "indicates that we may have around 80 Advanced Placement students" enrolling this fall...