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...results in both cases were disastrous, Finley said, "and Harvard like Roosevelt, learned from the disasters. Under Conant we mixed unity and diversity and came up with a real New Deal of a Gen Ed program. Now all these fellow on the Faculty are trying to breaking...
Armed with Popguns. Authors Maurice G. Baxter, Robert H. Ferrell and John E. Wiltz argue that the mess in Indiana can be matched in most areas of the U.S. Along with James Conant and others, they pin most of the blame on teacher preparation, which consists mainly of a few undergraduate survey courses in history. About one-third of Indiana's history teachers have not taken a single graduate course in the subject. "A teacher who invades the classroom with such a background," the authors warn, "is akin to a soldier entering battle with a popgun...
...fact, just such a system which led to the formulation of the present program of General Education. The Conant Committee was concerned with the practical problems of a distribution requirement--how one should decide what courses would fall in what areas--, and the requirement's philosophical inadequacy--it wasn't adequately countering the growing phenomenon of specialization...
Trusty Trustees. Conant's cure for such shortsightedness is the creation of an "Interstate Commission for Planning a Nationwide Educational Policy." The commission, as Conant envisions it, ought to be a formal compact approved by Congress and composed of representatives chosen by the states-not educators but rather distinguished citizens such as those that serve as trustees of topnotch universities...
...spadework would be performed by perhaps 30 "working parties" of experts exploring problems state-by-state. Then, with the power of the states behind its specific recommendations, the group would have a good chance of getting congressional funds to meet the itemized demands. With such a plan, says Conant, the U.S. could devise a nationwide educational policy "adequate to meet the challenges of the new and awesome age in which we live...