Millis High School - Mowhawk Yearbook (Millis, MA)

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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...”

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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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.. . While Educational Facilities at Milli Title I: To aid local school-district projects which help “educationally de- prived children”’. Title II: To provide monies to buy textbooks, and to expand school li- braries, including the purchase of books, periodicals, phonograph records. Title III: To uplift educational ser- vices to all students in public or pri- vate schools, in any way a local dis- trict sees fit. Title IV: To provide monies for re- search contracts with any “university, college or other appropriate public or non-profit private agency.” Title V: To strengthen state depart- ments of education, especially those that are understaffed, underpaid, and incompetent. Adequate Library Facilities Increase Knowledge “T will never do anything in my entire life that ex- cites me more, or benefits the nation I serve more, or makes the land and all of its people better and wiser and stronger, or anything that I think means more to freedom and justice in the world than what we have done with this education bill,” said President Johnson concerning the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which provides federal aid to education under five separate titles: ' Preparation for Responsible Citizenship Language —- The Means of Com- munication ee ae i i