Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the Progressive Education Association, it is financing films and radio programs on social problems, creating a new high-school curriculum pointed toward social change. In 1913 the huge Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations were investigated by a suspicious Congress. But today critics who looked the Rockefeller gift horse in the mouth in 1913 are sorry to lose the old animal, for G. E. B. has written its Q. E. D. under many a progressive idea...
...corn belt. For nine-year-olds in the third grade, Centerville is a story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young Professor Paul R. Hanna, progressive education's No. 1 curriculum expert; University of Chicago's Professor William S. Gray, a top-rank expert on reading; and Genevieve Anderson, a Des Moines assistant elementary school director...
...Graduate School of Public Administration, endowed by Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York, opens for its first regular session this fall, after more than a year of exploratory conferences between government officials and Harvard professors, working out a new type of curriculum for this field. During the first year there will be fifteen students, winners of the first Lucius N. Littauer Fellowships for study and research at the school. Ten of the Fellows have been in the federal government service...
...proud of its athletes and of its scholastic record. Sacred studies and spelling study (until a student's spelling is letter-perfect) are required every day, and Latin is a pre scribed course. Students are carefully ushered in small classes (12 to 15) through a rigid classical curriculum. Last year 35 of the school's 231 boys averaged 90 or better in the school examinations. Episcopal High School scholars make an impressive showing at University of Vir ginia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Planning to go back to teach in The High School (perhaps eventually to step into...
...subjects range from accountancy to zoology. They are supposed to cover a high-school and college education. National Educational Alliance's catholic curriculum includes such subjects as art, archeology, biology, literature, writing, interior decorating, photography, psychology, languages, philosophy. There are no courses in handcrafts or trades, because the alliance believes enough schools and publications already teach these...