Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-26
Stepped-Up Plans
Await D. c. Pupils
Hansen Outlines
Special Glasses
In Muth Science

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An estimated 113,505 pupils,
nearly 2,400 more than last
years enrolment, will report
this year to a District public
school system studded with sew
|eral additional programs geared
to space-age educational con-
|ceptS.
School Supt. Carl F. Ham
sen, at a press conference to.
day, described the new Offer
ings and an emphasized teacher .
recruitment effort as being
among the major drives for the
new school year.
However, there will be 112
classes with 3,846 pupils on
part time, as compared with
some 5,446 part-time pupils
this sring.
Stepped : up and special
courses in mathematics, phys
les, languages and sex educa-
ton will mark the curriculums,
along with extended use of abil-
ity grouping.
Add New Teachers
The school system expects to
add lat new teachers to the
4,1S8 figure of last year. The
number includes about "A per
cent temporary teachers. The
teacher recruitment drive will
be accompanied by efforts to
increase the number of perma-
nent and prob tionary
teachers.
I'VE need to be extremely
aggressive in moving out
through the country and re-
cruiting teachers for future
years, Or Hansen said.
The four-track curriculum
for high school students will
be extended this year to the
18th grade, having begun two
years ago in the 10th grade,
and an honor student program
will be introduced for SIS
pupils in the seventh grade at
10 Junior high schools.
Senior High Totals
DR.. Hansen gave these totals
for the senior high school pro-
gram: 10th grade-302 hon.
orS program, 1850 college pre-
paratory, l,791 general, and
] 1897 basic; 18th grade - 2S8
honors, 1888 college prepara-
tory. 1,947 general, and 1927
basic; 18th grade-284 honors,
1,121 college preparatory, 1,4l1
general, and 768 basic.
The extension of the honors
program only to the seventh
grade will take place at Ban.
neker, Browne, Deal, Gordon,
Hart, Kramer, Macfarland,
Hall, Taft and Woodson Jun
Tor High Schools. 1t is antici-
pated that the program will be
run through the eighth and
ninth grade in future years.
The honors seventh graders
will be grouped and given
stepped up instruction in sub
jectS including English and
science. They then will be pre-
pared to begin foreign Ian.
guage and math courses earlier
when they move to the eighth
grade
Two experimental classes
carrying out a new concept of
teaching math for seventh
grade honors students at Kra.
mer and Deal Junior High
Schools will accompany a gen.
orally enriched math program.
These two classes will be
experimental this year, with
a view to expanding them next
year." DR.. Hansen said.
Generally stepped up courses
will involve some of the algebra
and geometry usually given in
the eighth and ninth grades.
1t is anticipated the honors
classes then will be able to
move ahead in the traditional
algebra and geometry courses
and possibly take college-type
geometry in the 18th grade.
Special Lab Courses
Special laboratory courses in
physics at Coolidge and West
ern High Schools will be pat
termed after courses developed
In q Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology program sponsored
by the National Institutes Of
Science.
The schools will continue
elementary experimentation in
language instruction, carrying
it to the seventh grade at Deal
Junior High. Russian will be
introduced at Eastern and Will
son High Schools.
A workshop on September ;
at Burdick Vocational High
School will help prepare teach
ers for the pilot program Of
instruction in family living" or
sex education to be started this
year at three high schools, two
Junior highs and six elementary
schools.