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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...four. "They can do much more than we thought," says one teacher. At suburban Chicago's New Trier Township High School, 57% of the students took extra courses last summer, mostly for the fun of it. At Detroit's Cass Technical High School, A-average Senior Harley Shaiken, 16, spends 37½ hours a week in classes that range from qualitative analysis to enriched English literature. He works on the school paper, studies three hours every night, never watches TV and does not own a car. Why does Harley work so hard? "Not to get the grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New High School Kids | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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