Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Statistics now recommends graduate students for Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics and in various combined fields. The Department's curriculum in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has shown "the core of what the undergraduate field should include...
...tutorial curriculum--particularly for honors juniors--is unfortunately so abstract that this irrelevance is unimportant. Sophomore year introduces the concentrator to great historical writing while the junior year is devoted largely to the philosophy of history and to historiography...
...last year, as compared with over 10,000 in social studies, 8,000 in English, and more than 12,000 in physical education. Many attempts to raise the level of science teaching are in progress. New York City has instituted a Bureau of Science and Mathematics to coordinate the curriculum in the public schools, and to try to bring standards nearer those of the Bronx High School of Science. A national education foundation has engaged Oscar-winning Frank Capra to direct some films dramatizing the opportunities in science...
General stiffening of curriculum seems a more practical suggestion. "Too many people turn away from science and engineering in college because they feel so unprepared in math and basic science," Grayson Kirk observed. "Given opportunities for choice, children may take easier subjects...
...question is, then, whether a free society can afford to let those who want to glide through school and thus waste needed talent. Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, states the case for those who wish to require a more rigorous curriculum. "In the best of all possible worlds, we could be elated that man has unshackled himself from earth gravity. Unfortunately, we don't live in the best of all possible worlds...