Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal high school curriculum is a daily kaleidoscope of unrelated courses: a class in English, perhaps followed by history, civics and then the arts, each session unrelated to the other. Emulating liberal arts colleges and the better prep schools, some public high schools are now offering broad-scale courses in humanities that seek to relate these disciplines, and to show their relevance to the kind of decisions students must make in their own lives...
...pacesetter in the field is the state of New York, where 100 high schools have developed experimental humanities courses, using a rough guideline prepared by state education officials. In most schools, English, social studies, music and art are linked in a common curriculum, taught either by a team of teachers or in individual courses that coincide in timing and theme...
...Russian rocketry that launched Sputnik, many a critic of U.S. education assumed that the supremacy of Soviet schools was no longer in doubt. The Russians don't think so. Last month the party's Central Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore...
...match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach to discipline based on respect for the individual student as a potential leader of men. In the same spirit, a curriculum once narrowly limited to engineering and military skills has broadened into a liberal-arts program designed to stimulate critical intelligence...
With the added electives, humanities courses now account for nearly half the Point's curriculum. The reason, says Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they...