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Tentative plans include extensive psychological testing, and experimentation with new curricula and teaching methods. A "Team teaching," where a single class is instructed and supervised by a group of teachers, will probably be tried...
...Classrooms. "A third place is in the classrooms. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. In many places classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. We must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty...
...genius is still the product of an individual brain; pure scientific research may be utterly unrelated to pyramided teamwork or expensive gadgetry; science is by no means restricted to physics, chemistry and biology, in spite of the fact that neither Nobel (science) Prizes nor most of our high school curricula recognize any other fields; much research of the highest kind can be pursued without resort to higher mathematics or computers; leaders of some religions or orders are scientists first, theologians second, harking back to distant times when nearly all scholars wore the cloth...
...depend on widening employment opportunities and ending segregated housing, but there is much that educators can do to help now. Through its Graduate School of Education--which regularly cooperates with local school systems--the University could send experts to various "problem" schools in the North and South to improve curricula and classroom methods, and to provide special help for students with educational deficiencies. Harvard could undoubtedly attract foundation money for pilot projects in slum schools, similar to New York City's "Higher Horizons" program. And such an Ed School venture has ample precedent: if the University can provide educators...
...criticism of academic programs that causes the confusion in The Education of American Teachers. Is Conant speaking here as an educator with strong individual prejudices about what programs colleges should offer? Or is he really claiming that present curricula do not serve the academic needs of teachers, and by implication, of any other professional people...