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...Advanced placement begins in the nursery, say some perhaps overly worried child development experts: by the time a kid is ready for school, he has already reached more than half his general "achievement level" for life. So educators have awarded Santa Claus a Ph.D., and preschoolers with well-heeled, ambitious parents are acquiring toys that teach concepts of mathematics and science almost before the children can speak in whole sentences...
...thoughtful critic of schools, James B. Conant, this week illuminates another problem that the U.S. didn't quite realize it had. In a new book, he says that the way the country shapes educational policy-on teaching reforms in grade schools, for example, or standards for advanced placement, or teacher recruiting-is chaotic and costly. After a wistful salute to the policymaking ministries of education in Europe, Conant acknowledges that the U.S. Constitution prevents the Federal Government from taking on such an overriding job. So, with a touch of defensiveness ("I am well aware that there is no novelty...
...only seconds remaining in the game. Quarterback Bob Keefe, who wasn't even listed on the scorecard, hit end Larry Hunter with a 20-yard pass on the Tufts 15 and then threw two plays later to Montague Demment in the end zone. John Beaulieu converted--the first successful placement for Harvard--and time ran out on the following kick...
Preparedness in an area would be demonstrated by advanced placement or determined in conference with a representative from the Committee on General Education...
...recommended that the emphasis on the history of science be abandoned and asked that students be given instead a "knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science" and an "idea of the methods of science as they are known today." Second, students who gained advanced placement were exempted from two out of three elementary Gen Ed courses. And, third, the conception of Freshman Seminars ran counter to Gen Ed by their intensive study of relatively limited topics...