Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen teaches is another matter. Teaching is not technology. It is the splendid province of the remarkable man on this week's cover. In the last year he has done more than any other single educator to throw Sputnik's red glare where it belongs-on the curriculum in U.S. public schools. James Bryant Conant is a product (1910) of one of the nation's best secondary schools, Roxbury Latin in Boston. In his 303 he was one of the country's most brilliant young chemists. At 40 he became president of Harvard...
Conant has never been easy to ignore for long. Beginning with his first year as Harvard's president (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), through Harvard's tercentenary (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), through postwar revamping of Harvard's curriculum (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946), Conant has been on TIME'S cover three times before. This is his fourth appearance-a rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard...
...school year of 1959-60 begins with 1,843,000 more children than the schools have room for. One-third of the schools are potential firetraps ; some are still using gaslight; nearly 75% of the high schools are too small to pay for anything resembling a nuclear-age curriculum. And though wise men urge the country to spend at least twice as much money for education, the U.S. maintains an "educational deficit" estimated at anything from $6.8 billion to $9 billion yearly...
...students will increase work in the humanities by about 15% this fall. Vocational courses such as map reading and graphics will be clipped enough to increase classes in the social sciences by ten minutes each. But like Annapolis, West Point will continue to emphasize science (62% of the nonmilitary curriculum). This year West Point will boost studies in nuclear physics, electronics, the effects of radiation. Plebes who are tops in mathematics will leapfrog into advanced subjects, e.g., vector analysis...
...Military Academy is still in the middle of a wide-ranging study of the curriculum, begun last year by querying 13,000 West Point graduates (including Dwight Eisenhower) on what changes they thought should be made. The alumni came up with a good many provocative ideas, e.g., women instructors, but agreed on little. West Point then called in a panel of consultants headed by Dr. Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, who urged 1) some elective courses, 2) more humanities and 3) more specialization in the upper classes. "The problem is where...