Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of a formal curriculum, Roslyn's schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...
Pointing out that in many cases, the members of the faculty are "unable to take the time to consider the point of view of the student in making up their minds on advancement or possible dismissal," the report suggests the creation of a student Committee on Curriculum, keeping in mind the agency "already in operation at Vassar...
...recommendation of a Student Committee on Curriculum, perhaps it is most charitable to reserve comment until this proposal is put into comprehensible form. As it stands, it appears entirely vague, unworkable, and unrepresentative. No mention is made of how the students who are to gather undergraduate opinion will be chosen. Apparently they are to be picked with the advice of departmental chairmen, yet undergraduates will have the right of final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment...
...government established a national educational board, it would not have to control national learning. As under the Committee's present plan, direct control of appropriations would not necessitate control of what is taught. There is little danger that the government will, or can, subvert the public school curriculum which is the same throughout the nation by withholding funds from some, subsidizing others. In the one case, therefore, in which the Roosevelt administration can make good use of federal efficiency, it seems to be abandoning it for political policy...
...revolutionary as its sex program was the commission's proposal for changing the curriculum. The graduate of the traditional, classical high school, it said, "knows the story of the geese that saved Rome" but is generally ignorant of the French Revolution, of "Mussolini's and Hitler's use of power." Plumping for a thoroughly progressive program, the commission proposed that highschool studies be built around five cores of human activity-language arts; social relations; home and vocational arts; creative and recreative arts; nature, mathematics and science...