Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McLean, Va. a British teacher evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said...
Though he had heard quite a bit about Finchden Manor− school for maladjusted boys 25 miles southwest of Canterbury−the London Times correspondent was hardly prepared for the frail, abstracted man who runs it. "What is the curriculum?" asked the correspondent...
...cutting down or folding up. You must be nuts." The first year, Fairleigh Dickinson managed to attract only 60 day and 90 night students. But balding President Sammartino offered something special to the community. He made local high-school principals his board of educational directors, evolved with them a curriculum that could be tailored to what local high-school seniors seemed to want and need. By 1945 his enrollment had jumped...
...isolate treatment of the aged from general medicine-denied them this prize. Instead, they won a recommendation that medical schools give "more emphasis" to gerontology and geriatrics. Nowhere in the country is there a chair of geriatrics, or any course specifically devoted to geriatrics in any medical-school curriculum...
...then 26) Mathematician Max Beberman of the University's College of Education to show the high schools how to step up their math instruction. Beberman, later joined by Page, decided the trouble lay in the whole approach to math teaching. He junked old methods, drew up a new curriculum, now has five Midwest high schools trying his theories on college-bound students. Many mathematicians regard Beberman's new method as the most important reform in nearly a century, and the Carnegie Corporation has voted a $277,000 grant to expand and test...