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...encourages the student with advanced placement or standing to view General Education as a unique opportunity rather than as an onerous or childish obstacle...
...Harvard, where early support for advanced placement helped the plan succeed nationally, almost half the freshman class arrived last fall having done some college-level work in high school, and 191 entered as sophomores. Those who enter advanced courses directly from high school do better than those who have taken the preliminary work as college freshmen. "One possible conclusion," jokes a Harvard official, "is that the high schools can teach better than...
That may well be the case at nearby Newton High School, guinea pig for most of the new curriculum changes. Four Harvard professors are teaching classes in social studies there, and students take advanced-placement exams in ten of the twelve available subjects. "I don't think we have a program here that was going ten years ago," says Principal Richard Mechem. The latest change: overhauling vocational training, which reflects a new-and overdue -concern of U.S. education...
...pressure would go for nothing if the schools were failing. But they are not. The emerging truth is that the tentative innovations of the recent past -honors courses, team teaching, language labs, curriculum reform, "enrichment," comprehensive schools, independent study, advanced placement, non-graded classes, "new" this or that -have in the main worked toward a successful transformation of U.S. secondary education. Although the U.S. educational system is too varied, too unwieldy, too much subject to local control for the tide to be national, the direction is clear. Says J. Lloyd Trump, who pioneered the team-teaching method...
...public is now more in favor of tough, rough standards for those who can take it." Many high schools now require five courses a semester, not four. Hardly a high school exists without some sort of enriched academic program for gifted students. For super-nourishment, students can take advanced-placement exams, which may land them in the sophomore class at college and will at least eliminate the necessity of taking certain freshman courses. In 1955, when the College Entrance Examination Board introduced advanced-placement exams, 12,000 students from 104 U.S. high schools took them; last May 29,000 students...