Millis High School - Mowhawk Yearbook (Millis, MA)

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Willis Report Recommends Complete Among the recommendations included in the preliminary report of the Willis Commission, whose function is to improve the standards of education in Massachusetts, are the following: a) Setting of new standards for educational quality, the penalty for not conforming to these to be loss of state aid. b) Establishment of a new State Board of Public School Education. c) Creation of a Coordinated Board of High- er Education and an eleven-member Advisory Council on Education. d) Reorganization of the State Department of Education. e) Appropriation of funds to aid educa- tional institutions. f) Revamping of technical-vocational in- struction. g) Not apportioning state aid according to 1946 property valuation figures. Dr. Benjamin Willis Conversational English

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Miss Elizabeth Murray Mrs. Mary A. Welch Miss Christine Miss Marcia Rosenblum Mrs. Donna Wilson Head of English English Borgmann English English Department English Mr. Richard T. Green Miss Joan L. Mr. Leo J. Dugas Mrs. Emilie B. Green Mr. Francis D.. Reading Analyst Strathern Head of Foreign Foreign Languages Flanagan Librarian Language Dept. Foreign Languages Mra. Mary K. Gavin Miss Ellen M. Conway Mrs. Eleanor E. Mr. Niles N. Nelson Mrs. Dorothy E. Mathematics Mathematics Kenney Mathematics Norwell Coordinator Mathematics Mathematics Mr. Harry C. Damon Mr. David A. Wilson Miss Mary E. Sylvia Mrs. Joan E. Young Mr. Henry M. Doyle Head of Social Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies Studies Department oe Revesd P. Mr. William Davis Mr. Carrol Mountain Miss Dorothy J. Miss Myrtle A. Snape : Sclence Science Truskolaski Coldwell lez, Beience Science School Nurse

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Sey Ce ee ae Te ee NT aes eee ee C-H-E-E-S-E! CONANT REPORT Experimental projects for the controversial teacher training reforms advocated by James B. Conant in The Education of American Teachers will be carried out in seven colleges and universities. These major changes ad- vocated by Conant are: 1. Most of the responsibility for teacher certification will be placed on the institution training them rather than the state. 2. The task of on-the-job teacher training will be shifted to local school districts. 3. Classroom proficiency will be the chief criterion for certification. 4. State education officials will be made chiefly respon- sible for supervision of on-the-job training and prac- tice teaching. For the plan to be successful, Conant says, a vital interest must be developed at the colleges in teacher education. Sasieaii i iit ‘hah Dr. James B. Conant “No, Ricky, you can’t have your squirt gun back!” “Wait, I want to take my glasses...”