Word: shaplin
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Associate dean of the School since 1954, Shaplin has worked closely with Keppel in developing the School of Education as a leader in training and research for teaching. He has served also as director of Harvard's Master of Arts in Teaching Program...
Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education, has been appointed acting dean of the School, replacing Francis Keppel '38, President Pusey announced today...
According to Shaplin, there will be no entrance exams to the new school, and students will represent "a cross-section of interests and aptitudes." They will have a choice between "practical, vocational, and general" courses of study, prefaced by a two-year "hard core" of general education. Guidance counselors will route students into appropriate channels on the basis of early performance...
Although the formal contract awaits signing, Shaplin explained that a "letter contract" permits him to proceed with preliminaries. He has already hired an American principal and most of the eight American teachers who will begin work next January. Harvard and Newton will send over, and AID will finance, school supplies and a staff of educational specialists. An additional five teachers from the U.S. will join the staff in the second year of operation...
...Shaplin noted that within a few years Western Nigeria is expected to assume control over policy and administration of the school, the Harvard-Newton staff becoming entirely advisory...