Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plans for decentralization are legion. Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of Harvard's School of Education, would give principals authority over hiring, budget control, and curriculum. Others advocate greater autonomy for school boards where they exist, or for district superintendents where boards do not exist...
...growing size and changing composition of postwar cities. According to Gittell's study, New York City has lost 800,000 middle class whites and gained 700,000 Negroes and Puerto Ricans during the last decade. Yet, says Gittell, "New York City has not witnessed any meaningful change in curriculum, administrative structure, teaching recruitment, appointment and training, or general organization in the last three decades...
Meanwhile, central planning, a natural corollary of bureaucracy, has hindered flexibility within existing structures. Curriculum planners prescribe identical course programs for nizing the rigidities of the present urbs, regardless of relative academic levels or availability of textbooks...
Johnson told reporters that Wellesley's curriculum has much to offer M.I.T. students in the liberal arts area. He mentioned Chinese as a field of study not offered at his institution but available at Wellesley...
...think you owe me an apology for a gratuitous slur on my character as well as for a generally nasty article based on unauthorized possession of my Harvard curriculum vitae...