Word: cremin
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Columbia University professor Lawrence A. Cremin gave his speech, entitled "Popular Schooling and Its Discontents," as the first of three speeches he will deliver here as part of the Burton/Inglis Lecture Series...
Focusing on current discontent with American education, Cremin said the criticism is "more vigorous, it's more pervasive, and, most importantly, it's potentially more destructive than at any other time in our history...
Many contemporary critics make "rather extraordinary assumptions" that improving the curricula of our schools will enable us to "knock out poverty, compete with the Japanese, [and] beat the Russians," Cremin said. Yet this mode of thinking "condemns [the schools] to failure before they even start;" we must instead debate "what we're going to ask our schools to do, realistically," he said...
...shooting pictures of the auroras and growing crystals in solution to studying the dynamics of water, glycerin and silicone droplets in weightlessness and probing the atmosphere below to measure its content of man-made pollutants. All told, 14 of the 15 scheduled experiments were providing what Mission Manager Joseph Cremin called "good" and even "great" data...
Throughout the history of U.S. education, as Lawrence Cremin, president of Columbia University's Teachers College, points out in a 100-year survey published last year, the pendulum has swung repeatedly between academic and religious values in U.S. schools. If, as ex-Principal Barton suggests, fundamentalist schools lean too far toward indoctrination and authoritarianism, public school educators are increasingly willing to concede they have been neglecting traditional values of character and citizenship in the classroom...