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...refusing to review a decision holding unconstitutional the state's 1956 Pupil Placement Act, cornerstone of the massive resistance framework...
...generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court† and leave nothing but turmoil for Virginia. Dalton's alternative: establish a pupil-placement plan similar to neighboring North Carolina's, admit a few selected Negroes. Under such a system, says he, every Negro child would have to take individual action to enter a desegregated school; most schools would continue segregated "for maybe a hundred years...
...Proper designation: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. t One initial law already is before the Supreme Court after being clipped by the Federal District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both courts have held unconstitutional a Virginia plan transferring control of pupil placement from school boards to the state government at Richmond...
Besides stimulating the well prepared student, the option of skipping a general education course would make advanced placement itself more appealing to the incoming freshman and the Harvard prospect in secondary school. At present, unless the student has three advanced placement courses, his credits do him little good. He can, supposedly, take courses not regularly open to freshmen, but with a glib tongue he can talk his way into many upperclass courses anyway. Advanced placement also makes later course reduction easier, according to the Advanced Standing Office; however, the qualified and responsible student can often get course reduction without previous...
...liberalization in the requirements for the advanced placement student would therefore give him more freedom and added intellectual stimulus, and yet still hew to that University ideal of requiring some intellectual nibbling from all fields...