Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Eton." A tour of England's prestigious prep school allows the visitor to mingle with the collared-and-gowned boys, visit rowing and cricket practice, attend a debate on North Viet Nam, assess the old customs and the new look in curriculum...
...girls are more apt to display their intellectual talents when they are not also vying for dates in the classroom, that either sex concentrates more intently on classwork when they are separated, that the separate campus is more relaxed and casual in dress. Some also contend that a coed curriculum tends to overemphasize masculine vocational interests. After competing with men in a coed college, claims President Paul Weaver of Ohio's all-girl Lake Erie College, a girl is likely to become "dissatisfied in the role of mother and homemaker...
...Registration. Now Challenge has teacher applications and interviews in the spring to select a staff for the following year. And the program is increasingly demanding a serious commitment from those who join up. Teachers must come back to Harvard a week early for a training session and must attend curriculum meetings during the year. The negligent or apathetic are being asked to leave...
Despite Challenge's innovations in admissions policy and curriculum, it has only had partial success. About two-thirds of the students show up for each session. While some have bettered their grades the changes, in general, haven't been spectacular. Challenge's most significant gains have probably been in less tangible areas like improving student attitudes toward learning culture, and college...
Despite some reservations about the arcane portions of the curriculum, most of the class lauded the school. "What I have learned here," said West German Banker Dietrich Herzog, "is that European integration is not only possible but absolutely necessary. Of all Europeans, the French need this sort of exposure the most." Said Norwegian Leif Kristoffersen, production manager of Scandinavian Airlines System: "I had always considered Spain a very rigid and autocratic country. But from what the two Spaniards here say, it simply cannot be that sort of place." Such understanding is roughly what Héreil had in mind...