B. Problems: (1) A tap leaks at the rate of 1 pint per hour. How many gallons are lost in one day? (2) A brick is 9 inches long. the answer in feet and inches .gallons How long are 7 bricks laid end to end? Give .ft. ....S. .in. d. (3) What is the cost of 3 ounces of tobacco at 3s.81⁄2d. an ounce? (4) There are 37 boys in one class at school, and 34 in another class. If 10 of these boys were absent one day, how many would there be left in the two classes. .boys (5) If the length of my stride is 36 inches, how many strides do I take in half a mile? ...strides (6) A book has 150 pages, with 40 lines to a page and 10 words to a line. How many words are there in the book? words (7) A necklace of beads is 21⁄2 feet long. If each bead is 1⁄4 inch long, how many beads are there in the necklace? beads TEST OF INTELLIGENCE 1. (i) Which letter occurs least often in the word PERPETRATE? (. .) (ii) Vinegar is to Sour as Honey is to (sugar/comb/bee/sticky/ (iii) Which of the following words has no two letters the same? (iv) House is to Roof as Room is to (window/floor/ceiling/fireplace/ chimney/wall) (v) If the letters in the word SPECIAL were rearranged so as to be in alphabetical order, which letter would then be in the middle? 2. Opposites: (i) ALWAYS. (ii) VANISH. 3. Classifying: (i) (now/often/never/sometimes/ever/soon) SERVANT, VALET, BUTLER (invalid/master/nobleman / (ii) HIVE, LÁIR, BURROW (bee/thicket/nest/hide/tunnel/jungle) 4. After reading: .) Five men, whom we shall call A, B, C, D and E, each inhabit one floor of a five-storied house. B lives two floors above A and one floor below D. E lives one floor below A. Who lives one floor up? 5. Order-underline the first and last: (i) First/sixth/fourth/tenth/third (ii) Walk/stroll/run/trot/stand 6. Code the numbers correspond to alphabetical order: (i) (2, 9, 4) means. (ii) (19, 15, 21, 18) means. (big/bit/aid/bid/bin/die) (tour/soul/sour/rout/sown/smut) INDEX Ability grouping-- European schools. Need for. Academic basic education, England and United States compared Acadamic standards: England... Low in United States. 35, 40-41, 72, 73, 75 129 34-35 114 36 148-149 116 78-79 78-79 Academically talented.. Accreditation (United States), need for improvement.. Adult education, England.. Statistics... Albert, Prince__ Alford, Representative Dale Alverson, Superior Judge Luther. America, educational isolation of American education: Ability grouping, need for. Cost of. Comprehensive school criticized. Improvements since Sputnik No. 1. Separate secondary schools needed. 35, 40, 41, 72, 73, 75 116 157 36 96 Talented youth neglected... Teacher certification, criticism of Too much stress on social purpose- Value of comparison with other advanced nations_ Samples of composition tests of American public secondary schools, inferior to European_ 130 97 36 94 50-52 31 40-41 35 113 32 44-45 31 149-150 39 326-327 320 326-327 32 34 79 34 69 328-330 156 education_____ Apprenticeship (England). Amidon Elementary School (District of Columbia), experiment in basic Arnold, Matthew.. Survey of European public schools. Ashby, Sir Eric.. Automation............ Average student (United States) - B Baccalaureate exam, continental_ Page 58 128 43, 86, 100 31 85 8 148, 150 64-65 Basic courses, suggested for school curriculum_ Basic education__ Amidon Elementary School (District of Columbia). England. Need for. Need for more in the United States_ Bestor, Arthur. Boston Latin School. British Ministry of Education___ 36, 45-46 58 53, 55 V 17, 32 36 34 III C California Institute of Technology. 36 Cambridge "Can Our Teachers Read and Write?" by James D. Koerner- 85, 86, 92, 106 1, 14, 16, 30, 42, 46, 50, 52, 60, 69, 102 Carnegie Corp., study of reading habits. Character development in U.S. schools, value of 256-263 Chemistry, sample exams ("scholarship" level) for English General Certifi- 57 Church, education after the Reformation on the Continent_ 88 88 Churchill, Winston__ 77 Classroom work and test papers (Manchester, England), samples of pupils. 266-319 College board achievement test (United States) - College board exams (United States), statistics. College board exams (United States). -- College of Preceptors (England) - Composition tests, samples by American high school students of. Complacency, dangers of Comprehensive school, a handicap in United States- Comprehensive school, in United States, criticism of.. 3 ! ! !! 118 63 118 326-327 328-330 Europe.. United States_ 100-102 35, 36, 38-41 75 54 43-44, 84 Conant, Dr.__ 129 "Continental University, The" (ch. IV) in "Swiss Schools and Ours: Council for Basic Education, publication "Teaching the Third R". 56 Council for Basic Education, publication "Tomorrow's Illiterates". 58 Page Cousin, Victor. Cousin, Victor, on Prussian schools. 1-2 106 Cousin, Victor, report on Prussian schools for French Government_. 31 31 113 Democratic education, United States. Dewey, John.... Dewey-Kilpatrick theory of education___ Diplomas and degrees, national accreditation of Draftees, Switzerland, rejection rate.. Draftees, U.S., rejection rate. Dropouts, England.. "Education For All American Youth," study of NEA, criticized. Educational achievements, England and United States compared In American schools. Educational reform: In decree countries _ Eldon, Lord. IV, V 8 79, 126, 128 33 96 151, 156 100 101 101 101 15 16 135 11-12 37-38 10-11 7 130 146 34 34 42 42 19-20 England's teachers, role of setting scholastic standards. Engineers and technicians, education and supply of in U.S.S.R_ Engineer's Joint Council (United States), study of Russian engineering Engineers, United States and U.S.S.R_ English Commission of Inquiry reports, impact of_ 120 46 46-47 9 9 46-47 104 41 114 Central-local government relations.... Aid to private schools.. Aspects appropriate for U.S. study of. Church-sponsored schools_-_- 110 52-54 108 92 |