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Concerning your Oct. 21 Education story "What Makes Them Good?": I consider the method of selection used in Robert Marschner's list of outstanding secondary schools to be completely inadequate and unfair. To use the absolute number of 20 finalists in the Merit Scholarship test as the sole basis is to be unfair to those high schools whose academic achievement is high but whose enrollment is low. If such a list is to be valid, it certainly should be compiled on a percentage basis...
TIME publishes Robert Marschner's 38 outstanding schools on the basis of scholarship awards. When will educators wake up to the fact that schools are for all and not just the college-bound few? These schools sound like exclusive clubs. Whatever happened to the idea of universal education, or is that important...
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...Marschner list included 35 public schools and three private.* The senior classes range in size from 100 to 1,200 pupils, send anywhere from 30% to nearly 100% of their students to college. Though the principals credited their schools' success to such factors as the educational level of their community and the quality of their teachers, most indicated that the decisive factor was old-fashioned hard work...