Word: curriculum
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Wilcox is also Director of Advanced Standing, and reportedly would like to devote more time to that office in the future than he has this year. With his concern with Advanced Placement and Freshman Seminars, Wilcox has come to be regarded in University Hall as "the curriculum engineer...
...problem at Minnesota is to impose coherence on a curriculum that ranges from sophisticated space research to the tricks of department-store floorwalking. The campus is an all-too-loose federation of competing schools that span education from poetry to dentistry, without any agreed hierarchy of academic values. For example, the Institute of Technology recently spirited physics and chemistry away from the liberal arts college, which critics contend is another dire step toward vocationalism. Liberal learning is so secondary that a business student spends only 18% of his courses on it, and a dentistry student only...
Opposition to the Kennedy plan in Congress is reportedly based on fears that the grants to states, if used for teachers' salaries, might lead to Federal control of curriculum and methods of instruction...
...remedial English courses in colleges) is of equal interest to government and private interests but for different reasons. Congress hopes that direct aid to colleges to finance better training programs will yield better teaching methods. The foundations would rather pursue programs to test new teaching techniques and revise current curriculum. Most of the National Council of English Teachers' proposals if given adequate private backing by corporations and foundations would by-pass the plodding federal-state-city-school gamut of obstacles to autonomous innovation...
Although the enrollment in biology courses has remained constant, Carroll M. Williams, Chairman of the Department, noted a decline in concentrators. He announced plans for a "fresh look at the entire curriculum" and consideration of tutorial...