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Summer Session Kansan Friday. July 8, 1960
Pennsylvania High Schoolers Prove Tutor Program Value
Dr. Charles H. Boehm, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is right in enthusiastically endorsing "Project Tutor," a new program introduced in Shenandoah, Pa., to make use of high school honor students as tutors and group study leaders. The program is an answer to charges of overemphasis on spectator sports, and, perhaps, as Dr. Boehm believes, marks a "historic" gain for education in general.
IN ANY EVENT, a development which gives well deserved recognition to exceptional students, winning for them respect and prestige from their classmates heretofore reserved strictly for the star athletes, would be worthwhile for that reason alone. But the program in addition affords the honor students unusual opportunities to broaden their experience and at the same time inspires other intelligent youngsters to live up to their potential.
That is saying a great deal, but it is borne out by results at the University of Pennsylvania — where "Project Tutor" originated — as well as at Shenandoah. At the high school level, the "tutors" meet with voluntary pupils before class, stepping up their efforts at examination time, and are
particularly helpful in move demanding studies such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and the languages. In physics and chemistry, recent progress has brought such enormous changes and classes are so crowded that material was sometimes being passed over with only a fraction of the students getting the idea.
BUT THE "TUTOR" project turned the tables and teachers now find themselves inspired by the responsive and alert attention they receive in the classroom. Intelligent students, who hadn't been successful before, suddenly "came alive" with aroused interest when they were given the chance to work directly with others of their own age who knew what they were doing.
The Inquiler has recommended before that improved teaching methods and new teaching devices, including TV, movies and testing equipment, should be called upon to ease high school problems. "Project Tutor" is such an innovation which, if promptly and effectively adopted, could strengthen the quality of instruction in several highly critical areas.
— Philadelphia Inquirer
Slow Students Urged to Drop Out
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Students who will not or cannot learn should be allowed to drop out of school, many educators believe.
A poll of school superintendents by The Nation's Schools showed 73 per cent of them to be against compulsory attendance at school
until the age of 18 or the completion of 12 full grades of school. Sixty-one per cent of the administrators polled would permit students to drop out of school after their 16th birthday.
A Michigan superintendent who would permit students to drop out
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 European.
5 Appendix to the Old Testament: Abbr.
6 Composer Straus.
14 Not very good.
15 Boy: Span.
16 Girl in a song.
17 Describing most cowboys.
19 "Dieu et mon ___" motto of British royalty.
20 Calyx parts.
21 Ballplayer Hodges.
23 Small coins: Abbr.
24 Sugar: Chem, suffix.
25 Speak a second time.
27 Barely enough.
30 Watchman.
33 Apple-like fruit.
34 Reduce.
35 Austrian capital.
36 Cobra's relative.
37 Certain teamsters.
38 And so forth.
40 Solid organic alcohol.
42 Household god.
43 Simple.
44 Pickled.
46 Underworld.
47 Deliverer.
48 Airfoil.
49 Collection of anecdotes.
51 Adjective ending.
52 Trial sites.
55 Cash.
56 Marks in printing.
60 Arnold's co-conspirator.
61 Recent.
62 Character in "Topper."
63 Head wind: Slang.
64 Short side track.
65 Marriage: Comb, form.
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1 Bachelor of Sacred Scripture.
2 Playwright Anita.
3 "God have mercy on such ___"**: 2 words.
4 Ben Jonson's comedy.
5 Scheme to get.
6 Porkers.
7 United.
8 Cranky old fellow.
9 Roman language before 200 B.C.; 2 words.
10 Anthony.
11 Contrasted with 17 Across.
12 Mine entrance.
13 Rodents.
18 Orient.
22 "O! thus be —
when freemen
shall stand ****:
2 words.
25 Snake.
26 Port in New Guinea.
27 Sudden, brief spell.
28 __ Rica.
29 Connective
symbols.
30 Ill-bred person.
31 __ nous.
32 Olympic events.
34 French seaport.
37 Mechanical
carrying device.
38 Wildly gay.
41 Creek.
43 Contemporary of
Cardinal Newman.
45 Casts up.
46 Yesterday: Fr.
48 Emancipator.
49 "___ for the
ages": 2 words.
50 Emphatic denial.
52 Neighbor of
Kiska.
53 On a cruise.
54 Glide along.
58 Weaken.
59 Artful.
at 14 suggested placing them in a type of work camp. "I visualize something on the order of the old CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camps," he said.
Educators against compulsory school attendance up to the age of 18 called it a waste of time both for the schools and the students.
"Forcing students with no interest in school to remain there does not assure their making good use of the opportunities," a superintendent from Pennsylvania said.
An Illinois administrator termed compulsory attendance for these students a waste of the schools' efforts and a hindrance to the proper education of those who want to learn.
A Vermont administrator summed up the feelings of educators in favor of requiring 12 full grades of schooling for everyone. "We must provide an education for all youth," he said. "Each child should complete a high school course tailored to need, adaptability and capacity."
Some educators favoring a compulsory 12 years of school, however, suggested that it provide technical training for those with low academic achievement.
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