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...Angeles County, voters passed a $17 million bond issue to build facilities "for the detention, training or custodial placement of juveniles." After turning down a school bond proposal last year, Cleveland calmly reversed itself and approved, by better than 2 to 1, a ten-year, $50 million building program. Explained George Theobald, assistant superintendent of Cleveland elementary schools: "I think the constant dinning in newspapers and magazines on problems of American education and our self-criticism are beginning to pay off. People are realizing more and more that we're in a struggle for survival...
Radcliffe is considering joining the Committee at the present time. However, because of sufficient alumnae contacts in Washington, Radcliffe does not wish to subscribe to the Committee's job placement service...
...accomplishment in Pittsburgh has been luring better teachers at better pay, devising better ways to free them for better teaching. As a result, Pittsburgh boasts the nation's biggest team-teaching effort (8,500 pupils), a solid start in Advanced Placement courses, "lay-reader" housewives who grade English compositions, a 25% higher salary for beginning teachers, and a 10% merit bonus for master teachers. Last year applications for teaching in Pittsburgh schools rose 65%. A skilled lobbyist, Gross quietly wrested $1,500,000 from experiment-minded foundations, got the state legislature to pass a i% wage tax for Pittsburgh...
Andover boys tend to measure this gift in one word: college. In 1951, Andover's courses were already so collegiate that John Kemper spurred Andover, Exeter and Lawrenceville to join Harvard, Yale and Princeton in setting up the nationwide (1,358 schools this year) Advanced Placement Program. Now 50% of Andover boys take college courses, from calculus to philosophy. Of 208 boys going to 39 colleges this fall, Harvard took 42, Yale 39, Stanford 20, Columbia 12, Princeton 11. Of 115 new students that Harvard accepted this year as sophomores, 20 were Andover graduates. The average Andover graduate, says...
Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, said yesterday that no recommendations for Nat Sci courses were made to the 46. His office sends placement recommendations to all freshmen for General Education and language courses. Recommendations are based on examinations and high school credits...