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...Faculty's primary aims was to eliminate repetition in a student's transition from secondary school to college. Accordingly, the plan passed in March, 1954, provided that entering freshmen could get full credit for secondary school courses of recognized College level--equivalents of French 20 or Math la, for example. If a "freshman" demonstrated on his placement tests that he had earned three full-course credits in this way, he would immediately gain official sophomore standing and all its privileges, such as freedom from Physical Training and the right to enter a field of concentration. (He would also, presumably, move...
...year of high school, and a glance at their records helps to dispel any fear that they are either unprepared for Harvard studies or, on the other hand, prepared for nothing but Harvard studies. They are all taking respectable freshman subjects, with three of them, in fact, engaged in math studies more advanced than the elementary Math 1a. None of them is taking his first elementary language course or any other subject that should rightly be taught in high school. Yet their present course schedules, despite a leaning toward the sciences, exhibit the usual dilettante variations of the freshman year...
While U.S. teachers and parents hotly debate how best to teach Johnny his reading, many are also wondering: What about his math? For those worried about Johnny's lack of interest, new hope came last week in the form of a colorfully illustrated book called The Wonderful World of Mathematics (Garden City Books; $2.95). Written by Lancelot...
...National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council an nounced that in cooperation with the American Society for the Advancement of Science, it was about to do something to inspire better high-school science and math teachers. This year a pilot program will start in Arlington, Va. Among the things it hopes to accomplish: raise a scholarship fund to send teachers to any of eight local colleges and universities, open up summer jobs for teachers in local scientific and engineering organizations...
Under the old distribution system, students could, for example, fulfill a science requirement with an elementary math course. Under General Education, students conform to the spirit as well as the letter of the law. Its success in accomplishing this conformity is reflected in its acceptance by the undergraduate, to whom its objectives have become as familiar as the term "gen ed" itself...