Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot, Harvard administrators have debated and rejected proposals to change the undergraduate program from four years to three, and revise College education to permit more rapid graduations. As the Program for Harvard College gathers momentum, the same problems of growing educational needs, and the old solution of revising the curriculum, again assume importance...
...Overseers, President Conant proposed a three-year college program with emphatic support. In the ensuing discussion one important change over the past emerged: there was to be no "acceleration" of regular courses in the undergraduate years. Involved in the new proposal was a complete revamping of the curriculum. Educators suggested a three-term-per-year plan to ease the revision, instead of the present two-term system. Emphasis in courses would undergo sweeping change. Less specialization in the upperclass years would be required. In short, the whole theory of undergraduate education would be re-examined; the curriculum and courses would...
...returns to the College itself. Acceleration lowers the caliber of undergraduate education. Advanced placement affects relatively few students, and, again, is likely to lead to an acceleration program undermining the value of the college education. The only solution President Conant could see was a complete redesigning of the College curriculum on a three-year basis...
...light of the current debate on the function of the Ivy League colleges in the nation's educational panorama, this problem becomes all the more pressing. Solutions to time, money, and curriculum question-marks are needed now. Debate over the fundamental bases of education take on a real and urgent nature. The three-year college program is a controversial plan. But perhaps these proposals, by very virtue of their controversial nature, will at least air the questions, and revitalize our search for answers...
...benefit of a whole school system. It has persuaded some colleges to take in bright high-school students before graduation and to give others advance standing after high-school graduation. It has also been a major catalyst in beefing up the standards of the public-school curriculum...