Word: dekalb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, it is clear that all is not stagnate: progress is slowly being made in educational methods. In Georgia's DeKalb Country, the school board has begun breaking classes up into ability groups, enabling the poor student to set his own pace, and the good student to move ahead. Many schools direct their good students into college courses, offering analytic geometry to those able to undertake this advanced work. In addition, Ford Foundation grants have enabled some schools in Atlanta to offer elementary calculus and extensive studies in English literature and American history...
Sixty percent of the money for the pavilion came from the U.S. Treasury under the Hill-Burton Act; 20% came from the state of Georgia, and 10% each from Fulton and DeKalb counties. With the fund, Spalding and his colleagues have built a five-story hospital with 116 beds (no more than four to a room) and 33 bassinets, with modern refinements such as a central oxygen supply and a lot of airconditioning. Private rooms will cost $15 a day with bath, $12.50 without; semiprivate $11, and a bed in a four-bed ward $9. The staff will include both...