Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three courses at a time, a arrangement making possible concentration of effort and high levels of achievement. The Faculty, on their side, will give only one lecture course at any given time; the rest of their energies will be devoted to the several kinds of seminars which characterize the curriculum...
...some of the years now given to elementary and junior high schools, fill them with high school level courses. ¶ Legislate widespread and continuous federal aid to education. ¶ Keep local control of curriculum, but strengthen schools by the establishment of national minimum standards. Hechinger suggests a National Board of Education Advisers, appointed by the President, from citizens of widely varied occupation. The board, apparently, would determine only the minimum attention given to each subject; Hechinger would rule out "any interference with matters of personnel, curriculum, teaching methods and the selection of textbooks...
...have proposed that education could remedy any and all human maladies. Confronted with the ignorance of the electorate, Jefferson proposed universal education. Confronted with the racism of Caucasians, the NAACP proposed integrated schools. Confronted with the rise of Sputnik, a chorus of voices is calling for a rougher academic curriculum. Since this faith in education is universal, the great debate of our time is not whether or not the schools can save us from radioactive ruin, but merely which educational policy will turn the trick...
...with being anti-intellectual, anti-social, and feeble minded. These progressives are termed "educationists," to distinguish them from more academic "educators." According to their critics, these "life-adjusters" are engaged in a conspiracy to exalt adolescent mediocrity, a subversive effort to remove all difficult and challenging courses from the curriculum...
...schools should raise their academic standards in order to provide more technical and creative training for their students. At the same time he deplores the fact that only half the youngsters of college caliber are actually continuing their education. Yet in "the good old days," When his cherished academic curriculum was universal, far fewer talented young men reached college or even bothered to graduate from high school. Instead, they left school early and became the anti-intellectual voters who refuse to support school taxes, and the "practical" parents who steer bright children into auto mechanics...