Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal officials earmarked $262,000 for "Operation Cool-It," aimed at shifting 50,000 restless youngsters from the sweltering streets to beaches...
...sponsoring group hopes that, besides negotiating salaries, the new organization could have a say in determining curriculum, encourage cooperation among its members, and enable them to speak as a group on such university-wide issues as the draft and loyalty oaths...
Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School predicted last night that his faculty will eventually approve a major overhaul of the school's curriculum...
...arriving at a historic point in looking at the curriculum," he told 200 students at a meeting that was itself an historic occasion -- the first time in memory that a Med School dean has sat down with all interested students to answer their questions on current issues...
Ebert himself asked the school's student-faculty committee to arrange the affair, in order to discuss a controversial report on revamping the curriculum. He said the report, which is now before the faculty, is simply "one suggestion" for change, But he spoke in favor of all of its recommendations, and he indicated that he thinks the faculty will approve them or similar changes...