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...Graduate School of Education has received a $100,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish approximately 20 national fellowships for future teachers of science and mathematics on the secondary school level, Francis Keppel, Dean of the Faculty of Education, disclosed yesterday...
Applications for admission to the School of Education are to be automatically considered for the fellowships if the applicant plans to enter the specifield field, Keppel explained. The first recipients of the new awards, to be named the Alfred P. Sloan National Fellows, will be announced in two weeks...
N.A.S.S.P. President George E. Shattuck and Executive Secretary Paul E. Elicker called the first installment of LIFE'S "Crisis in Education" series "a degrading misrepresentation of today's program," referred to part of an article by Novelist Sloan Wilson (LIFE, March 24) as "a caricature of secondary education." cited charges of statistical inaccuracy brought by Dr. Harold C. Hand, University of Illinois education professor...
Marquand-Type Society. While Wilson signed a more or less routine contract with his publisher Simon & Schuster, his royalties are above the 15% top writers receive, and certain unusual details are involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie...
With this financial peace of mind, likened by Sloan Wilson, sometime teacher of English, to a professor's "permanent tenure," Novelist Wilson, at 37, hopes to become "an old-fashioned man of letters whose obituary lists 20 or so novels to his credit." Unpretentious about his writing so far ("a small, humble and private thing"), Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet...