Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curriculum accents learning by "discovery" and subtly prods the children to teach one another. To act out childhood fantasies, they create weird costumes and run off in them to Central Park, where, as one student wrote in his daily journal, he simply "spied on people." One classroom contains eight doves, a skink, boa constrictor, canary, goldfish, turtles and families of gerbils and mice. The mating habits of a pair of doves, Hawk and Paloma, led to a highly explicit discussion of reproduction, all duly recorded in a scrapbook labeled the "Dove Book." The animals provide a common community of interest...
...also satisfied computer customers. The Methodist Church utilizes electronic data processing to keep tabs on its 37,600 U.S. parishes. This spring the Southern Baptist Convention plans to install a Honeywell 1200 computer in its Nashville headquarters. Among other chores, the machine will help design a new Sunday-school curriculum -including hymns-to be offered the Convention's 34,000 churches. Eventually, a Sunday-school superintendent will send in a questionnaire giving a profile of his students-and back will come a customized curriculum tailored to his church's individual needs...
...Social Relations Faculty this week approved curriculum changes which will allow honors concentrators to substitute one full graduate-level course for a thesis...
...reply to Monday's editorial about NROTC curriculum changes, I should like to offer a different interpretation of the action taken by the Committee on Educational Policy. You implied that the CEP, motivated by a belief in the existence of "the conflict between ROTC's privileged place on campus and Harvard's academic standards," revised the NROTC curriculum "by chopping one-and-a-half credit courses out of the NROTC program" and adding "some solid college courses." Actually, the Navy proposed these changes, not the college, in an effort to improve its students' education. The CEP's action is rightly...
...relinquishing their demand that Nabrit resign. Many outside the University had pressured student leaders to insist on the resignation, but in the end the students settled on their most viable demands including the creation of a student judiciary committee, the dropping of disciplinary action against student, and important curriculum changes...