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Modern Foreign Languages in the High School Curriculum: Excerpts for the Record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant*
Affiliation:
588 Fifth Avenue, New York City
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Extract

The main conclusion I draw from my study of the American high school can be summed up very quickly. Based upon personal visits to fifty-five high schools from coast to coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, this conclusion is that no radical change in the basic pattern of American secondary education is needed in order to make our high school as satisfactory as the best I have seen.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , May 1959 , pp. 52 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1959

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From an address delivered at the General Foreign Language Session of the annual MLA meeting, 29 Dec. 1958. Dr. Conant's address was a summary of findings and recommendations which have since been published in his book, The American High School Today: A First Report to Interested. Citizens (McGraw-Hill, 1959).