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...years. He was able to convince his four-member school board that what the system needed was promotion based on a student's performance, not automatic passing based on age. In the fall of 1973, Greensville announced that twice a year students would have to take a standardized test to determine whether they had mastered their grade's material. Thereby Greensville became one of the first school systems in the country to inaugurate a minimal competency program, which in some ways resembles U.S. school practice of 40 years...
...following June, on the basis of low test scores, 800 students (21% white, 79% black), compared with only 239 the previous year, were ordered to repeat their grades. What is now known as the Greensville experiment was well under way. In Owen's innovative program, students held back because of below-average performance do not sit in their old classrooms while other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math...
DIED. William M. Magruder, 54, crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
...churches realize that explicit sexual material has been creeping into network programs for several years. But Soap is regarded as a key test case. The Rev. Everett Parker, media watchdog of the liberal United Church of Christ, calls the program "a deliberate effort to break down any resistance to whatever the industry wants to put into prime time." Says Wall Street Media Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Soap is a stalking horse. If it is a success, everyone will want...
Unfortunately, if UMass provided a tough test for Harvard's fledgling quarterbacks, Colgate figures to make things downright brutal. All the experience in the world won't do a young player any good if all the memories are painful...