Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of obvious prosperity (reflected in new buildings, new professorships, etc.), Harvard Law School has proceeded cautiously on essential questions of purpose and principle. Its only recent addition to the first year curriculum is a semester of legal history which -- like the five other first year courses -- is compulsory. The second year curriculum continues to require courses in taxation, corporations, and accounting ... Proposals to increase emphasis on legal writing and argumentation, and to de-emphasize year-end examinations, have borne no fruit. Student contact with local attorneys, city government agencies and courts is almost non-existent. Experimentation -- innovation -- is left...
This letter is not an appeal for specific action, either for curriculum modernization or for confrontation of job discrimination. It is intended to question the prevailing thinking, which turns on a "wait and see" response. Such a response is hardly appropriate at Harvard Law School, where justly-earned prestige could provide support for the exercise of innovative leadership. David L. Kirp
...comparison will suffice. The introduction of universal, compulsory education in the 19th century gradually transformed American society. This was the great change. Present efforts to add a few years of schooling at one end or another, to extend the curriculum and improve facilities, while useful and important, cannot possibly have the impact of that first innovation. To the extent that the new programs are directed to persons who have trouble coping with the education system as it is, they will be even more costly and marginal in their effects. It is one thing to be concerned about a high school...
...long walk to Mallinckrodt, and once you've gotten there the chemistry courses are hardly worth it. Currently, there is general dissatisfaction with the curriculum -- especially lower level courses -- offered by the Chemistry Department. And these grumblings are more valid than the normal gripes of the lazy pre-med or the over-zealous chem concentrators...
...write just as nicely as little girls," says Edward Feeney, supervisor of elementary schools in Prince Georges County, Md. Teachers also expect boys to progress at the same pace. "Why shouldn't boys take longer to go through the elementary school?" asks Elizabeth Wilson, a Montgomery County, Md., curriculum director. "Why should it be a disgrace...