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...student's idiosyncratic program creates a not uncommon union between pedagogic conservatives, who resent the symbolism of any change, and pedagogic rebels, whose visions of dramatic change differ so greatly among each other that I find it hard to imagine them agreeing on an alternative set of curricula. A good many students and some faculty would like to return to a system of free electives, abandoning both concentrations and General Education; the proposal for Special Concentrations is sufficiently restricted so as to make abuse unlikely, and by making any particular concentration seem less involuntary, because students have a chance...
...while teachers work the vineyards." Hothouse and vineyards-most teachers who will read and try to apply Jones are not Educational Development Center teachers, most children are not "Newton children," most classes are not observed and evaluated by a squad of experts, most schools can't cope with provocative curricula like "Man: A Course of Study." Bruner earlier provided well-meaning but incompetent classroom teachers with theoretical tools for the objectification of their children's minds. Now Jones provides what may become tools for the dissection of the children's souls...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee is formulating plans for a new system of student representation on committees to revamp college curricula...
...most recent, and newsworthy, examples of this. Any action by anyone which seeks to limit the freedom of the University to offer courses smacks of censorship, and is distressingly similar to the recurrent incidents in which PTA's try to get books with dirty words removed from school curricula, or vigillantes try to remove such works from public libraries...
...work in the area of curricula reforms...