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Conant began his survey of American education in 1959 with the publication of "The American High School Today." Among the study's many specific suggestions were the institution of a required program of English, social studies, math and science for all secondary school students, special programs for the "academically talented," and better voca- tional training and guidance...
...Alike. Whatever Chicago devises, it may be hard put to match the remarkable curriculum announced last week by Brown University. Heretofore, Brown had a standard general education setup: required courses in three basic areas (humanities, social studies, science and math), all of them to be completed in the first 2½ years. To foster breadth of interest, students were restricted to a maximum of twelve one-semester courses in their major. But starting next fall, Brown will banish all this for a frankly "permissive" system based on the idea that early specialization may lead to later generalization...
Yaleman Cruikshank, who succeeded the founder in 1936, had himself started another school near by after a teaching stint at Hopkins and The Gunnery. But the Taft job looked better: a no-frills school stressing math, Latin, plain hard work, with Taft family money to keep it improving. In Cruikshank's years, this formula has educated more than 2,000 boys, most of them rock-ribbed Republicans, though Taftmen also include such fugitive Democrats as New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Academically Yale-feeding Taft is as solid as ever, with 40% of its boys taking...
...More undergraduate volunteers are needed to work with young Negro students in Roxbury," a spokesman for the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee said last night. There are a great many grade school students who need help in such elementary subjects as geography, English, and math, he added...
...more school aid for "federally impacted" areas, such as those around army camps and defense factories. Southern Congressmen love it; this year it will cost about $350 million, and extension should pass without trouble. Due for expansion is the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which spurred the teaching of math, science and foreign languages and set higher academic standards in these subjects. Congress likes aid to education when expressed this way, and may well approve...