Word: curriculum
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Freedom Annex in Washington, D.C., is a different kind of high school. It has no grades, no desks for teachers, no bells to end classes. The students choose the teachers and set the curriculum. They attend only if they choose, and they create hardly any disciplinary problems. Any that arise are handled by students, not teachers. Freedom Annex is, in fact, the first accredited student-run high school...
...Washington's Eastern High School, where there are only three whites in a student body of 2,400. Gregory Taylor, now a senior, resented his classification as a "basic" student (meaning that he was destined for manual labor), and he was uninterested in what he considered an irrelevant curriculum. Taylor organized a group called the "Modern Strivers." With the help of George Rhodes, Washington's assistant superintendent for secondary schools, the Strivers worked out a written proposal for their own freedom school.* They raised funds, got the loan of two floors in a church-owned building...
ACCORDINGLY, Ethos, the black students' organization, sent to Ruth M. Adams, president of Wellesley, a list of proposals designed to make the college more attractive to blacks. Included in the list were suggestions that the college employ black administrators and professors, that it introduce into the curriculum Afro-American history as a major field of study, and that 20 additional black students be recruited over the summer to fill the incoming class...
Dower was chairman of a previous seven-man graduate student committee on East Asian Studies. This group published a four-page pamphlet last month listing their grievances, and calling for reform in the curriculum, language requirements, generals, and dissertations in their departments...
Yales New Afro-American curriculum was drawn up by a special committee of professors and black students after a nine-month study. President Kingman Brewster Jr. appointed the committee last winter in response to demands of the Black Student Alliance, an organization which includes almost all of Yale's black undergraduates...