Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Illinois State Normal School. In 1912 he joined the faculty at Teachers College and now is Professor of Education. His attention is devoted mainly to the training of professional students in the secondary school field. He has written two studies entitled "The Junior High School" and "Curriculum Problems" and has made his influence felt by activity as a member of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Schools, the Commission on the Teaching of Science and Industrial Subjects in the War Emergency, and other survey and advisory bodies...
Soon the personnel of Washington's 14 colleges knew that President Spencer had more practical devices up his sleeve than the delivery of dicta. Lest the University grow sleepy with self-assurance, he had prepared a means of scrutinizing his curriculum, plumbing his pedagogs through the clear eyes of some 7,700 undergraduates. The faculty was to receive the stimulus by seeing themselves as students saw them...