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...Vietnam affects ROTC in other ways. For the first time, ROTC cadets are learning counter-insurgency, now a standard part of both the military and Marine curricula. In Mil. Sci. 2hf for instance, cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled...
...workers). Medical technologists will work with student technicians and college graduates who have degrees in science, teaching them techniques of laboratory work. Health educators will work in two colleges and at four teacher training schools, educating the future teachers and encouraging inclusion of health education material into all science curricula...
...mass meetings of concentrators to selection by grades or intensity of interest. But the method of choice is far less significant that the fact that a large department is at last trying to implement the idea of student-faculty cooperation that has proved so helpful in reinvigorating the curricula and rules of small concentrations, such as the Social Studies program...
...ubiquitous Dr. Blaine, writing in Mosaic, the magazine of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, urged in March that information on birth control be made part of the curricula of high schools and colleges, suggesting that such a move would reduce the number of illegitimate births in this country...
...system of four "tracks"-basic, general, college-prep and honors-finds for every student a place that matches his ability, although it differs from "ability grouping" as practiced experimentally elsewhere in that it fixes curricula firmly beginning with the fourth grade and allows little choice of courses. Kids are permitted to jump up a track or so, if capable. Keeping classwork commensurate with abilities seems to decrease the incentive to quit school: Washington's dropout rate has declined to 36%, from 52% when Hansen took over seven years...