Word: placement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...District school boards must refer all Negro applications for white schools to a three-man state pupil-placement board, which can reject them on any basis except color. ("We had to figure out a defense that was based on anything but race," Lindsay Almond once explained. "You see, that would be going against the Supreme Court decision.") The pupil-placement law has already been swept aside in some federal court districts...
With the resulting upgrading of the caliber of students admitted for study at Harvard, together with such innovations as course reduction and advanced placement, the University not only gave concrete recognition to undergraduate excellence, but also provided the means whereby such excellence could be developed and matured. By some indications, Harvard's experiments were successful. Intelligent young men came to Cambridge and found it good...
...conference is under the direction of Dana M. Cotton, Director of Admissions and Placement in the Graduate School of Education, and associate director of the Summer School...
...Advanced Placement courses approximate college-level work with varying success. Because of expenses of buying books (a public school does not require students to purchase their books), the Advanced Placement History section is confined too closely to a text for its readings. The English class, however, gives conscientious students a workout which matches that of lower level Harvard Humanities course. In 1955-56, one third of the year was spent on drama and the work centered around a theme once known to freshmen here as "Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature." During the winter, poetry, essays...
Developing the ability to write good exposition is a problem at all levels of the school, a difficulty which seems to be prevalent through out the country. Even the Advanced Placement English class finds trouble fitting in enough time to work on writing. The school administration has moved this year, however, to place more stress on English composition work. English teachers have been limited to four classes a day, in contrast with the normal load of five for other teachers. The extra time, according to the principal, will enable pupils and teachers "to work more industriously in developing quality...