Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading College official yesterday asked the Faculty to consider allowing advanced placement students to waive part of their General Education requirement...
Only those with Sophomore Standing who earn advanced placement in the Social Sciences or Humanities can replace the Gen. Ed. requirement with a middle-group course in these areas. "This raises the question of whether we are going far enough to encourage all our able students to enter the most difficult courses for which they are prepared," he said...
...annual report to the Faculty--to be released today--Wilcox points out that the Advanced Placement program at Harvard has grown from 39 students in 1954 to almost one-third of the present Freshman Class this year. At the same time, the number of secondary schools sending students to the College with some previous college-level training has increased seven-fold...
Wilcox called on departments to be more liberal in granting credit toward the concentration requirement for the degree to New Sophomores who earn advanced placement in courses within the department concerned...
...expansion is a healthy contribution to inspiring high academic ideals in the schools, and it helps to make the college curriculum challenging and interesting to well prepared students. Colleges and schools may find that sacrifices are necesary in order to make their contribution to the program, although as Advanced Placement is presently divided among colleges, the richest would make the largest--yet comparatively modest--contributions. They should recognize, however, that whether or not a student derives monetary benefit from the tests by his course exemptions, he is usually in no position to pay their full cost. To attempt to force...