Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that parents will realize their role with greater seriousness, and that the schools, which so desperately rely for their survival on the good will of the community, learn how to co-operate with parents and sacrifice nothing from their students' educational experience. When this is achieved in a significant number of American public schools, an immense step will have been made toward the goals which the separate portions of the community desire for their children, but cannot yet achieve...
...some of the nation's most advanced public schools. The great migration from the cities to commuter-land, bringing hordes of new students in its van, has subjected suburban education to great strains. Many schools have responded to and grown with this challenge, however, and today a good number of suburban high schools are rated among the best in the country...
...following eleven pages, the Crimson presents a series of viewpoints on this system. It does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of the educational problem as it stands. It is, rather, an attempt to achieve some sort of understanding through a number of, hopefully, representative cases. Contrasts between these cases and an examination of several special problems involved will perhaps have more effect than a lengthy accumulation of generalization about "Education...
...Horace Mann, one of the largest, language courses depends on the number of students willing to take them and the availability of a teacher. A few years ago, two years of Latin and two of Spanish were the only languages taught. French was reintroduced recently, and a first-year German class is being formed for next fall...
...innovations has been to regulate the maximum number of credits that can be earned in a particular area of extracurricular activity. For instance, there is a limit on the number of years that speech or dramatics can be taken for credit...