Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are also certain elements of our curriculum which we are endeavoring to improve," Van Vleck stated. He pointed out that several new courses in design and materials would be added...
Through Error. For community orchestra managers-often amateurs who had to learn their business by trial and error -the league now runs annual training sessions. Included in the curriculum: how to select guest artists and evaluate their fees; how and where to get music and musicians; how to achieve proper balance of power between manager, conductor, board of directors and musicians-and generally, how to keep a whole town happily working for its orchestra...
This is the next phase and it has begun, though less conspicuously than the first. It takes the form of attempts to improve the curriculum and the faculty...
Complaints about this year's History curriculum have led to the plans for omitting fewer courses, Gilmore said. He expressed the hope that there would be no recurrence of this year's situation, when, because of the great number of faculty absences, only 13 of the Department's 23 undergraduate courses in Modern European History are being given...
...also decided that the modern educational theories with which she had been in sympathy at first have been a wasteful failure. The experts talked an incessant stream of sentimental nonsense ("We don't teach the subject. We teach the child"). They spoke of the dangers of a "fixed curriculum," and of the necessity of making education "meaningful" by relating every subject to the children's interests...