Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty voted to remove ROTC from campus. But beginning in 1976, students cross-registered in MIT's programs with Harvard's consent. University policy treated ROTC as an extra-curricular activity, on a par with sports of dramatics...
...December, MIT billed Harvard $40,000, Harvard's commitment to ROTC as an extra-curricular activity became an expensive proposition, but the Council decided to keep the ROTC option for Harvard undergraduates, Council members said...
...quote John Goodlad's excellent book A Place Called School to the effect that curricular changes concerning subject-matter instruction will fail "if not accompanied by substantial improvements in pedagogy." Goodlad points out that over 70% of instructional time is devoted to "talk" by teachers that reduces students to a state of bored passivity...
...inspired teachers who can transform an English class at Lincoln Park High or a kindergarten in Benton Harbor are in woefully short supply. Warns John Goodlad, former dean of the u.c.L.A. graduate school of education and author of A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future: "The proposed curricular changes, if not accompanied by substantial improvements in pedagogy, could increase the high school dropout rate...
...have a feeling that the age of the resident advisor is dwindling, and that the short-term program, curricular reform and the exchange program is taking its place," he says...