Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army has rejected the two major proposals in Harvard's three-point ROTC plan--a plan which would have radically revised the program here and possibly throughout the country. The third point, however, dealing with integration of liberal arts into the military curriculum was accepted, and changes have already been made in the College's ROTC course of study...
...more pupils common. Country schools were usually one-room affairs, with children of widely varying age and ability taught at the same time. Few of the teachers 50 years ago had anywhere near as much education of any kind as most teachers today. The elementary school curriculum was pretty much limited to the Three Rs, and the high schools confined themselves to a college-preparatory program...
...whom go to public schools, some to Indian Affairs or mission schools, some to no schools at all. New Jersey has debated whether appointed or elected school boards are better for the community, and Washington has investigated the idea of a threeyear, eleven-month-a-year high-school curriculum that would cut down the state's $67 million construction bill by at least $17 million. Other problems and discussions...
...college recognized industrial growth by adding mechanical arts to its curriculum. In 1894, it held its first six-week course for dairymen, the starting point of its present vast Continuing Education Service. By 1901, the college had grown into such an essential contributor to the state's welfare that the legislature enacted a special tax to guarantee it up to $100,000 a year...
Since the South African government put the Bantu Education Act into effect last spring, scores of such schools have sprung up. especially in the area around Johannesburg. Though the Bantu Act did not actually deprive South African Negroes of their regular schools, it imposed a curriculum that was designed to do nothing less than to convince every Negro child that he is inferior. Last April, thousands of students boycotted their schools in protest. The Minister of Native Affairs, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, one of the architects of apartheid, retaliated by closing the boycotted buildings, thus leaving some 7,000 children without...