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...control group of non-offenders. Five hundred delinquents and 500 non-delinquents ranging in age from 11 to 17, were matched case for case by age, residence in underprivileged areas, ethnic origin, and intelligence level. The Gluecks systematically compared 402 factors in the youths' family and home backgrounds, school history, leisure-time and interests. Their development health history, physical condition and body structure, underlying personality, temperamental traits, and the quality of their intelligence were also recorded...
...table was applied to a group of 100 Jewish boys confined in the Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School in New York State, with the purpose of determining the extent to which it would have been possible, years earlier, to have identified them accurately as potentially serious delinquents. Black and Mis Glick ascertained that 91 per cent of the group would have been correctly spotted by the test...
...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...
...closeness of our findings with the original findings in the study of Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency is rather noteworthy, since the New Jersey boys were selected at random, and no attempt was made to match the individual characteristic of these delinquent boys with those included in the Harvard Law School study...
Pupils of the future may learn their spelling by machine, study foreign languages by oral-aural laboratory methods and attend lecture-type courses if experiments and demonstrations conducted by the Graduate School of Education and local suburban schools prove successful. The school systems of Lexington, Concord, and Newton are serving as the proving grounds for an eight-year series of innovations in new methods of elementary and secondary school teaching...