Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more important proposal for providing more flexibility in the curriculum has so far received scant attention from the Committee on Educational Policy. It is the suggestion by the Harvard Policy Committee that the Independent Study Program be vastly expanded...
Dean Ford said Wednesday that most departments are deciding to require concentrators to take "core curriculum" in their major with a grade. So the fourth-course pass-fail option which begins next fall will probably be available to most students only for what Ford called "real electives...
...Harvard Divinity School has added to its curriculum three new programs of study, including a non-professional degree for students not interested in entering the ministry...
Also included in this year's curriculum are two new fields for doctoral work: a Th.D. in Comparative Religion and a Th.D. in Applied Theology...
Order of the Day. Philadelphia this year gave the superintendents of its eight school districts some power over curriculum, and is now studying a plan to let them decide how to distribute available school funds within their area. Philadelphia Superintendent Mark Shedd, an advocate of decentralization, sees dangers in local autonomy but argues that "the alternative risk of increased community alienation toward the schools is greater." To complaints that local districts tend to freeze racial boundaries, Shedd points out that "de facto segregated schools for many youngsters are going to be the order of the day for many years...