Word: curriculum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Committee on Educational Policy's proposals for revising the upperclass curriculum were passed yesterday after a year and a half of study and debate by a 77-35 vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and will begin to take effect next fall...
...full force of the CEP's recommendations is carried into practice by the individual departments, the College curriculum will place a greater emphasis on tutorial and independent study, increase the participation of senior Faculty members in tutorial work, and widen the gap between Honors and non-Honors programs. It will require the use of more costly methods of instruction and make greater use of House educational facilities...
...University, observed: "I am not opposed to classes in driver training, typing, woodworking, (cooking and the like), except when they are substituted for sound intellectual development." The trouble is, he said, they are substituted all too often. His proposal: "Remove all peripheral subjects (from the four-year high school curriculum). Concentrate these subjects in a 13th school year for those who want vocational education." ¶From Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association, came a reminder to fellow educators that "not all our critics are our enemies." Obvious although unnamed targets of his remarks: two officials...
Since the proposed new curriculum will require two years of graded tutorial for honors candidates, Wilcox fears that with only fourteen courses left, in which to fulfill concentration and general education requirements, course reduction may be squeezed out. "I am particularly concerned," he said, "that the new curriculum should not, either implicitly or explicitly, rule out a rapid and steady growth for independent study through course reduction...
...half courses in English and two half courses in Mathematics will be added to the curriculum next year, in addition to new courses previously announced in these fields, it was learned yesterday...