Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emulation has great advantages. It is much easier to run a college which is only a college, not a remedial high school for promising ignoramuses. Nobody at Harvard wants to spend time teaching foreign languages, high school algebra, or punctuation, paragraphing and syntax. If these things vanish from the curriculum there is room for more advanced teaching...
...white students. Because of residential patterns, however, white students tend to congregate in a few good New York public schools which send large groups of students to college. Negroes and Puerto Ricans, on the other hand, crowd the "difficult schools," where a lack of experienced teachers and a downgraded curriculum destroy any opportunities they might otherwise have...
...there were about six courses offered in American literature, and the English Department moved to recognize this field as a formal part of its curriculum. In a major reorganization of its courses in 1935, it changed the name of the section called "The History of English Literature" to "The History of English and American Literature...
...glass offices opposite M.I.T., the Committee's motivating assumption is that the teaching of high school physics has not changed since the turn of the century. With each technical advance, the Committee claims, a little of the philosophy of 1900 has given way and new skills appended to the curriculum. The result is a hash of abstracted Newtonian concepts, television sets, doorbells, and assorted gimmicks...
...schools the Committee has chosen to test the new course are all excellent to begin with, hence the effectiveness of such a course in a school with lethargic teachers and students can only be guessed. Even if independent schools and the top high schools alone were to change their curriculum, however, the Committee would have succeeded in reaching most of the top 25 per cent of the nation's secondary school students towards whom the course is aimed. If its first year is a reliable indication the Physical Sciences Study Committee should more than justify its existence...