Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educations, military and civilian, into the time normally required for one. In an age of awesome weaponry and a worldwide battle of ideas, the problem is getting some new answers, notably at the new Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs-where the aim is "education, not training," the curriculum is evenly split between science and the humanities, and the students hardly touch their seats to cockpits in four years. Last week the Army and Navy turned in the same direction...
...another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into advanced classes, later on they may earn the right to take "overload" electives in addition to their normal curriculum. Of this year's middies, 367 are signed up for overload courses, mostly in science (which still outranks the humanities at Annapolis...
...segregationist students as did the public Central High School, had no music, art, general mathematics or foreign languages. Nor would a wave of fly-by-night tuition-grant schools (most unaccredited) be subject to responsible supervision; fanatics and crackpots could easily control budgets and so set the curriculum, plunging Southern education to new depths...
...better on their physics exams after three years than the traditionally educated students did after six, government officials were impressed. Last spring Dr. Antonakaki's draft bill for school reform was put forward by the Education Minister with Premier Constantine Karamanlis' enthusiastic support. The changes involve curriculum, teacher training and the very rebuilding of the schools themselves. Last month, after the authoress herself had testified eleven days before committees, the bill was unanimously adopted...
...Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum" comes from the Latin word for racecourse does not mean that just any foolish subject should be entered as an added starter, says Wriston, citing universities that field a whole hodgepodge of courses...