Ed School Promotes Anderson to Professor

The University has announced the promotion of one of the country's leading experts in elementary school education to the post of full professor. Robert H. Anderson, presently associate professor of Education, will assume his new position next year.

This is the first time in the School of Education's history that a specialist in elementary education has been appointed a full professor.

Anderson, frequently called the "father of team teaching," has experimented with the practice of having specialty teachers in elementary schools. Pupils in schools using this system are taught by a different teacher in each subject.

Besides team teaching. Anderson has pioneered the ungraded school in which students are assigned to classes by ability, rather than age. At Lexington Anderson and his staff have already established this system.

The results will be interpreted and published by a team of researchers, including Anderson and Judson T. Shaplin, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education.