Word: curriculum
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...local control a current subject of U.S. debate is a growing gap between the have and have-not schools, widened by the financial dis parity between school systems and com pounded by a national shortage of skilled manpower. To some critics, the situation cries out for a "national curriculum" to equalize schools. Loud among them is Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who calls local control "the greatest obstacle to school reform." Says Rickover in a tendentiously titled new book, Swiss Schools and Ours: Why Theirs Are Better (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95): "I know of no country that has brought off successfully...
Joining Conant are university scholars, who once disdained professional educators but are now more than willing to add their voices to the task of modernizing the school curriculum. Reforms are under way in almost every subject: biology, chemistry, economics. English, math and physics - and all of the reforms are creating new national yardsticks. Stirring the schools equally is a flood of new knowl edge about learning itself, the work of scholars who now look on the process of education as an untapped gold mine...
Commenting on this statement, Lloyd I. Rudolph '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, maintained that "House seminars serve a legitimate educational function beyond tutorial." He contended that seminars can provide a worth while broadening of the standard curriculum...
...been acting through it Buck was initiate a host of new policies. of the most significant came only in round-about all can be traced back to the CEP-which amounted to the same thing. For example, the first concerns of the CEP possible disintegration of the arts curriculum because of drain on Harvard personnel. established a few survey course serving the core of a liberal arts tion; and out of the discussions subject emerged the idea of .12McGeorge Bundy...
...University has taken steps to prepare for an expanded Latin American curriculum by appropriating funds from Bliss chair in History for four research fellowships. After three years of study each fellow will teach a course Latin America...