Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea curriculum," similar to Harvard's General Education program, will be instituted at Brown University next September...
When he announced plans for revamping the curriculum in January, Brown's president Henry M. Wriston charged that "most textbooks are hardly worth reading. If they are not barren of ideas, they are impoverished in that respect. The minds of freshmen need to be awakened to a new adventure. The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school has been an underestimation of the capacity of students...
Archery, boating, horsing, and other pleasant forms of relaxation are the usual curriculum at a summer camp...
...Leonhard is concerned, the building program is only the beginning. Once the city has a proper plant, she thinks, it can begin to concentrate on remodeling the curriculum. In that job, the board can expect full cooperation from its able new superintendent, James Redmond; it was one of the results of Mrs. Four-to-One's crusade that he was hired...
Many educators have long regarded the ROTC program as an operational blessing and an educational curse. Although it has enabled students to stay in school despite a heavy draft call, its curriculum, they have said, has not fit into the liberal arts program. ROTC courses have been too dull, too detailed. Instead of giving students a chance to flex their minds, they have stressed memorization and routine. At Harvard, for example, this kind of course in the past has taken up four of the seventeen course credits an ROTC man needs to graduate...