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University Daily Kansas Tuesday. Jan. 19, 1960
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Study Shows High School Quality Differs
(Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles on education in American colleges and universities. How well prepared are high school students to enter college? What is being done for the exceptional student?)
By Priscilla Burton
In a study, "Let's Look at the Record," by George B. Smith, dean of the university, the dean comes to the following conclusions:
"In English, foreign languages and mathematics, it is quite clear that the students coming from small high schools—the median-sized high school in the state of Kansas is approximately 70 pupils—do not have the depth of preparation of the 'traditional' type of studies as do those students from the larger high schools. This is true to a lesser extent for the middle-sized high schools in the field of high school science.
"Those high schools which fall below 70 in enrollment follow the same scanty program in science as they do in English, foreign languages and mathematics."
Claude Eggerteen, of the University of Michigan School of Education, said;
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The Campus Police today said all street approaches to the campus are clear. They said ice streets are thawing, but are still stick in spots.
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"Although college students in the United States traditionally have had considerable ease of access to higher institutions, they have usually been selected on the basis of their records in high school."
More than one-fourth (27.8 per cent) of the 1959 freshmen class of 1,531 students ranked in the top 10 per cent of their high school graduating classes according to an analysis made by James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions. This is a 3.8 per cent increase over last year's first-semester students.
Paul F. Munger, of the University of Toledo, said:
"We are in a position to say that if a student is graduated in the upper third of his high school class, he stands a better chance of being graduated from college than a student who is graduated in either the middle third or lower third. However, we cannot say that students who are graduated from the lower third of their high school classes will not be graduated from college. Neither can we say that the upper third high school graduates will be graduated from college."
Mr. Munger found that 49 per cent of the upper third of high school classes is graduated from college, 23 per cent of the middle third is graduated, and 5 per cent of the lower third is graduated.
What are exceptional students and what is being done to help them?
The National Society for the Study of Education has defined exceptional children as "those who deviate from what is supposed to be average in physical, mental,
emotional, or social characteristics to such an extent that they require educational service in order to develop to their maximum capacity."
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At KU honors courses are offered for students whose placement tests and high school records show a student is capable of accelerated class work.
Under the program students are allowed to take higher level courses not ordinarily offered them. For example, freshman honor students may enroll in Western Civilization, a course usually offered only for sophomores.
In "A Study of Exceptional Students Who Entered the University of Kansas in the Fall of 1954," Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the School of Education and Dale M. Yocum, graduate assistant in education, said:
"Considerable attention has been given in recent years to the question of mentally exceptional children, both gifted and retarded. In a review of the 'education index' from 1929 to 1948, to determine the number of articles concerning exceptional students, 440 articles appeared dealing with the gifted at the elementary and secondary levels. From 1929 to 1956, 39 articles on mentally superior college students was reported.
"For the same period, articles concerning mentally inferior college students numbered far less—a
total of only five for the twenty-year period.
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Dean Anderson and Mr. Yocum found that there were significantly fewer women than men, by percentage, in the low-achievement groups. There were also more women than men, by percentage, in the high-achievement groups, although the significance of the difference was not so great as in the low-ability groups. It was discovered that women students dropped out in greater percentages than did the men, for every semester except the last. Then the percentages were almost equal.
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