Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal background is not exactly fudge, though it notably lacks the hard center of juridical experience to be expected of a federal judge. That deficiency has never budged Francis Xavier Morrissey from his deep-seated ambition to win a life appointment to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts...
...battery of new upper-level courses, differing in content and perhaps in pre-requisites. To enhance this prospect, the Faculty should instruct the Committee on General Education to require calculus for upper-level Natural Science courses. Thus a professor in the sciences could expect a class with some background in science and advanced mathematics, and could plan a General Education course at the same time stimulating and rigorous...
...step requirement in Humanities and Social Sciences is equally sensible. It is true that the introductory departmental course will not in every case provide background for the upper-level General Education course. A student may be no better prepared for Social Sciences 139, "The Life Cycle," after passing Economics 1. But the prerequisite does insure that students will get a relatively broad view of an area, which an upper-level course alone might not provide. A student who has taken Economics 1 and Social Sciences 139 (plays presumably another half course in Social Sciences) has had a good general education...
...Your cover story on the war in Asia [Sept. 17] is the most factual piece I have read. Not only have you dug up the background, but you have interpreted the Pakistani way of thinking. In April, I returned from Pakistan. We all knew then that this fight was coming: the Paks were painting their ground equipment battle-grey over the original yellow, were building revetment for their aircraft, etc. Thank you for your article. It will be saved for my son's children...
...than to a kid from a metropolitan housing project. Still, the question of cultural bias can lead to equally difficult problems. It may be, as Theodore Stolarz, director of the Chicago Teachers College Graduate School, contends, that IQ tests mainly predict "how a kid with a good middle-class background will do in middle-class schools." But so far, nobody has devised a "culture free" test that is particularly useful. Besides, such a test might be pointless since the aim of testing is to help guide children toward success in a culture of broad middle-class values. "If a child...