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Word: placement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against reality," editorialized the Atlanta Constitution. Indeed, the city's board of education had not only faced reality but accepted it. Ordered by U.S. District Judge Frank A. Hooper to present an acceptable integration plan (TIME, June 15), the board delivered last week on schedule. Proposed: a pupil-placement plan patterned on the Alabama law, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled constitutional. If Judge Hooper accepts, Atlanta's 95,000 public-school students (40% Negro) will be integrated a class at a time from the twelfth grade down-a twelve-year process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reality in Atlanta | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Most of C.E.E.B.'s Advanced Placement Pro gram tests already involve essay and discussion questions, even in science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: English Written Here | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...advisors et. al.) do a fine job of placing, selling, and guiding the bulk of the senior class. But prospective graduate students in the arts with no foreign fellowship ambitions get little in the way of guidance gladhanding. It is difficult, in the context of the College's present placement system, to find someone who can answer a question like "to which schools do I apply if I want to study the history and culture of modern Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Orientation | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

...large Placement Office-type forum provides neither an appropriate opportunity to ask specific questions about graduate departments, nor a felicitous occasion to have them answered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Orientation | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

...other schools' departments makes such consultation appropriate. Yet it would seem quite desirable for the departments to organize such consultations and perhaps to appoint a few knowledgeable members of the Faculty to carry them on in each field. These Faculty members would not be doing distasteful administrative and "guidance placement" work, but rather would be engaged in presumably interesting "shop talk" with students who are potential scholars in their own field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Orientation | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

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