Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another fallacy that the couple disproved by this extensive project, is that large families are the cause of delinquency. As it happened, both groups of families were equally large, averaging six to seven children...
...Department of Social Relations. Thompson established the SPT as a valid instrument for distinguishing among children already showing behavioral difficulties, those who are true delinquents from those whose maladapted behavior is temporary. The SPT showed that among a representative group of 100 boys, included originally in a research project called the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, it would again have been possible to identify accurately 91 per cent of all the boys as either potential delinquents or as non-delinquents...
...school systems have arranged with Harvard a joint project called the "School and University Program for Research and Development." The main objectives of this program, better known as "SUPRAD," are to improve the quality of education, to promote greater efficiency in the use of time and space in the schools, and to find a means of attracting and holding highlyqualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...
...line with the first objective, that of improving the quality of education, Newton High School established with the GSE during 1958-59 a project known as "contract correcting." This program will determine whether or not it is feasible to have qualified persons, such as housewives with college degrees, work from eight to ten hours a week correcting English themes...
...this project will include other communities near Newton for the purpose of giving a broader test of the system in school situations of a different type...