Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holds that some subjects are learned best when broken into tiny chunks of information that students can master one by one, each step providing its own little thrill of accomplishment. It works for subjects as diverse as chemistry, philosophy and navigation. Now a high school has organized its entire curriculum on programmed learning's principle...
...students, aged 16 to 19, are in classes roughly equivalent to junior college in the U.S., and on graduation should be able to enter the best universities anywhere. Their skull-busting curriculum requires 37 periods weekly, each boy taking four in his mother tongue, five in a second language and two in a third, plus a rich variety of courses from philosophy, music and the classics to history, economics and science. In accordance with the rigorous Hahn formula, the boys take numbing swims in the early morning, learn boat handling, pitch tents, skindive year-round in the chilly Severn estuary...
...spite of the plans to increase di- versity and sophistication, the total offensive scheme is quite simple. There are only about 15 basic plays derived from three basic series in the Crimson play curriculum, Yovicsin revealed...
McDowell calls shared time "more reasonable," but it still gets a cool reaction from many public school administrators. ''If we fracture our curriculum," says one, "what remains for public schools to teach?" Even cooler are those Catholic educators who feel not only that every subject-even electronics-needs religious interpretation, but that U.S. Catholics are rich enough to pay for bigger and better parochial schools...
...Organization Minister. These institutional demands have had their effect on the seminaries. In the interest of "making Christianity relevant" and "vitalizing the curriculum," Berger charges, the divinity schools have tended to shunt the theology aside and substitute a welter of courses in sociology, psychology, church management and literature. The end product of such education is likely to be that thoroughly un-Christian figure-the organization minister...