Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school grades were below average, yet he made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Buffalo. "This country," he says emphatically, "was not built by the upper 10%." Full professors will be paid an average $15,000 a year, get 20 paid weeks off every third year. The curriculum will be pared to a relatively small number of liberal-arts courses to enable students to get a comprehensive view of their subject matter. "We will not be doctrinaire," adds McGrath, "but we are going to teach moral and spiritual values...
...fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Slumlord," a poem not listed in the Curriculum Guide. Despite the highly vocal efforts of many satisfied parents, he failed to win reinstatement...
...Communist party must imply "a loss of independence of mind, and adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology," then American universities themselves are being close-minded and rigid. Every student's education must suffer, even if just a little, by the injection of such non-truths into the curriculum...
...teach him the Bible? Perhaps. But our trained Sunday School teachers ... can do it better." At the bottom was a list of the 22 United Church of Christ parishes in the Washington area that teach the Bible according to the denomination's new $1,000,000 Sunday School curriculum...
Since the first issue in 1923, TIME has been an aid to educators and an important part of their curriculum, and never more so than today, when, as teachers tell us, each week's news is so much a part of what they teach, whatever the subject. The way we organize the news into as many as 24 different departments helps meet the special needs of social-studies teachers, as well as those in English, journalism, speech and art. The NATION and WORLD sections, for example, serve as a weekly text of current history, the basis for classroom discussions...