Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tougher curriculum is the least and easiest of needed school reforms. The limiting factors loom larger than ever-rule and overrule by small-minded school board members having no single professional qualification, the absence of policy and real authority to cope with overwhelming discipline problems, the license of the lay public in interfering with and abusing school personnel...
SUPRAD is connected with the Newton Plan only by serving as organization for evaluation; Newton High School teachers and administrators originated and are carrying out the Plan...
...Newton High School system of lectures and seminars has its parallel at the grade school level in the "Team-School in Lexington. This endeavor represents the third SUPRAD objective, finding means of attracting and holding highly qualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...
...SUPRAD investigators and Lexington teachers believe that many learning activities on the grade school level, such as group singing and listening to a report or program, are such that little, if any, harm would be done if they were conducted en masse. Making class size flexible should also render much easier the institution of homogeneous and heterogenous grouping and individual instruction in the elementary grades...
...other classification, in the order named, are part-time teacher, professional intern (a person currently being trained for teaching), resource person (adults whose careers are in fields other than teaching, but whose special talents lie in fields where the regular school staff has insufficient strength), and clerical aide (adults with no professional preparation who are able, with a minimum of training to assist in various routine and nontechnical aspects of the team's daily work...