Word: curricularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only way to fill the curricular gap in teacher training, of course, is to hire more faculty. Sizer could throw out established or incipient research projects to raise the funds and hire faculty but he refuses. "There have been very few schools," says Sizer, "that have been able to stay with basic inquiry. The one's that don't, become trade schools. We can't keep putting band-aids on urban schools. We've got to have some long-range solutions." To get at the problem of training teachers Sizer has applied for a federal grant to fund two clinical...
...Class of 1968, has shown that it, like so many Harvard classes before it, is a gifted class. We have attacked our extra-curricular escapes with the same success. But to say that our talent indicates our state of mind is to ignore the truth. We have been a disheartening state of human affairs, confronting, especially in the last year...
Statistically, it is the people who do less well in terms of grades and academic standing who go to Business School and follow other roads to a business career. We can understand this partially by nothing that on this campus most students who go into business engage in extra-curricular activities, spend more time on social life, and are less grade-oriented than the academically-oriented students, who tend to be less suited to business careers anyway. This may well be the case in many circumstances, but it is too easy an explanation to wipe out the basic statistical trend...
...second theoretical defect in the present system is that a person who does do the reading diligently throughout the year usually ends up not paritcipating in any outside activities--for sheer lack of time if for nothing else. People who point with pride to Harvard's flourishing extra-curricular life may fail to realize that it exists only because most people do not do the reading till the end of the year...
...years, Mott has pumped $42 million into the public schools of Flint to keep them open evenings, weekends and summers for an improbable array of community activities. This year 92,000 residents of Flint (pop. 200,000), more than half of them adults, have signed up for extra curricular educational, recreational and civic programs in the city's schools. Including 47,000 school-age children, well over half of Flint's residents are involved in some form of school activity...