Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This attention by the two colleges to high school curriculum should be encouraging to students of the Farm who can remember the little constructive attention, impersonal as it was, paid by the universities to the list of courses in the prep school. It should serve as a further incentive to those secondary schools which are enterprising enough to experiment in new and more complete courses. --Stanford Daily...
Manhattan will take back one of the Harvard shells with them to New York as they are still trying to get the rowing side of their athletic curriculum fully developed. They have only had a crew since 1932 and are not yet in a position to compete with the colleges which have been putting first class crews on the water for so many years...
...Share-the-Wealth movement is divided into two parts. Part I is in Louisiana where Share-the-Wealth meetings are part of the regular curriculum of Boss Long's ward heelers. There are clubs, organized by his workers, in nearly every precinct or voting district. All jobholders and would-be jobholders are assembled in a shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young...
...could safely leave the colleges to push them on. Under the guidance of its British-born President Trevor Arnett, the Board turned to a new job, to the building of a brand new type of general education for the millions of students who have no use for the classical curriculum. The new curriculum would give the student an understanding of his physical and social environment. It would show him how to use his leisure. It would be heavily weighted with ''cultural" courses. It would include vocational adjustment, perhaps vocational training. The senior high school and junior college together...
Grants totaling $600,000 started off the new program. The Progressive Education Association got $90,000 for a try at reorganizing the secondary school curriculum. Another $70,000 helped train the individualistic young women of Bennington College (TIME, Jan. 7). The biggest grant, $300,000, will be dribbled out over a period of five years to the American Council on Education...