Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the members informed but also enable the holding of practical discussions throughout the year on policy and method. Even more necessary is the training of all advisers before they begin to counsel. Full-group sessions should be held in the fall to make each adviser familiar with the curriculum and outside activities, to talk over means of dealing with recurrent problems like discouragement over marks, and especially to teach all how to teach Freshmen to study...
...regents of the University of Wisconsin received a petition last week. The petition, signed by the Women's (students') Self-Government Association, asked that a course on sex & marriage be included in the curriculum...
...important part of the new curriculum is training in democracy, the central idea in John Dewey's philosophy. One of the chief devices used for this training is student self-government which is carried a good deal further in giving authority and responsibility to pupils than in the more or less wishy-washy system by the same name by which many a traditional U. S. school tries to hoax its pupils into the belief that they run their own affairs. Today one-fifth of the population of Czechoslovakia, some 2,680,000 students-1,832,000 in primary schools...
...speculative sciences, once the glory of German universities, are disappearing from the curriculum. In their place, pseudo-scientific courses in race culture predominate...
...head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...