Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worth the Expense. Recruiting efforts were stepped up, G.S.T.'s curriculum was overhauled, and children at summer camp found themselves playing "civil war games." G.S.T.'s publication advised that East German youth "must not only be smart and sing a lot, but be able to shoot as well." The organization today is primarily a premilitary training unit, commanded by a major general and allotted $7.5 million a year...
...college campus of 1980, the expressed needs of students will have priority. Students will fashion their own curriculum, teach each other, study on their own up to a third of the time, and quit school, return or transfer at will. Scholars, predicts Lewis B. Mayhew, a professor of higher education at Stanford, will be paid well enough to spurn research grants and outside fees. They will thus finally be able to accept the idea that "their chief duty is to help young people change...
...Process. Most of the anger swirls about a demonstration district in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Set up last year to test the potential problems and benefits of decentralization, the project gave a community-controlled committee the right to evaluate teachers, supervise curriculum and spend funds allocated by the central school board. The hope was that community involvement would lead to closer rapport with teachers, more interested students, a better curriculum and, above all, a halt in the steady decline in student skills...
Accent on Impulse. Mayhew believes that the 1980 curriculum will accent the liberal arts, de-emphasize purely fact-oriented courses. It will also deal with the emotional development of students and what Mayhew terms their "impulse life," as well as with "the big, perplexing questions of mankind." Technical and vocational training will be discarded from the undergraduate curriculum; corporate employers will supply that in a modern version of the apprentice system. Not only will most U.S. students spend a year abroad, but their home campuses will become "as international in flavor as were the medieval universities of the 13th century...
...disappearance in its present state" of the Education Ministry itself. A prime-and wholly legitimate-target of the uprising was the ministry's total dominance of all public education. Some 2,000 functionaries, operating out of a musty building on Paris' Left Bank, control all decisions on curriculum, examinations, admissions and facilities...