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...program were drawn up jointly by from the Ed School and the Newton school , and by B. Somade, Western Nigeria's Chief of Education. Judson T. Shaplin, associate of the Ed School, is director of the experiment...
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...
...results will be interpreted and published by a team of researchers, including Anderson and Judson T. Shaplin, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education...