Expansion (1945 - 1965)
The School and College Study of General Education
The School and College Study of General Education was initiated by the headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and funded by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education. It included three private college-preparatory schools (Phillips Academy, Exeter, and Lawrenceville) and three colleges (Harvard, Princeton, and Yale).
Under study were the educational experiences of the 344 college graduates who attended any of the three participating private schools.
The study found that the curriculum of the last two years of secondary schooling and the first two years of collegiate education for these well-prepared young men often overlapped, resulting in wasteful duplication, boredom and loss of incentive on the part of the student, and gaps in intellectual training.
The final report of the study, General Education in School and College (Harvard University Press, 1952), recommended that well-prepared students be given the opportunity to enter higher educational institutions as sophomores and that achievement tests be used to determine whether or not a student was awarded advanced standing.
