Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That unlikely batch, in fact, helped quiet fears that federal participation in education meant federal tyranny. "Words like 'regimentation' or 'control' are bugaboos of a controversy now past," says Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr. M.I.T. Chairman James Killian argues that federal support of new curriculum development has created "more diversity in our school systems, not less, more opportunities of choosing improved ways of teaching, not fewer...
...pupils were the best size for an elementary class. Today, 60% of the research is performed by experts outside education. Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Stanley Diamond, for example, are studying the culture patterns of slum schools. New York Composer Vittorio Giannini is developing a new music curriculum. Biographer Mark Schorer is looking for new techniques in teaching literature. Nobel Laureate William Shockley is exploring computer-programmed instruction. Keppel's office has ordered 28 studies alone on a single question: How do first-graders learn to read...
...give the student a thorough grounding in basic science so that he can go on to good research or good practice. By comparison, it is, indeed, a research school, since most medical schools lack teachers who can integrate contemporary developments in the life sciences into a medical curriculum. If you are the sort of person who can't wait to start saving lives, be warned: during your first two years, you will have to put with an immense amount of complicated, tedious "pure" science, which you will certainly find irrelevant and unbearable. It's not easy to generalize about whether...
...present view that effective medical practice must be based on comprehension of basic medical science. Instruction was made more rigorous and was extended through-out the academic year; the University took responsibility for the school's finances and began paying professors' salaries; laboratory work was added to the curriculum; examinations were toughened; appointments to the Faculty emphasized academic experience; and students were selected on the basis of their preparation. The climax of Eliot's efforts came in 1906 with the School's move to its present location in six imposing (but cheerless) buildings off Long-wood Avenue near the Fenway...
...conference -- with representatives from all eight Ivy schools -- discussed primarily issues of educational reform, including the role of undergraduate curriculum evaluation...