Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoarding his summer earnings as a lifeguard, Reagan managed to enter tiny (enrollment then: 250) Eureka College in Illinois-another small, activist-breeding environment. He made the football team (as a 175-lb. guard), led a student strike against the board of trustees when they tried to change the curriculum, graduated in 1932 with a degree in economics and sociology, and-"because I was a child of the Depression, a Democrat by upbringing and very emotionally involved"-he cast his first vote for Franklin Roosevelt. "Remember his platform?" asks Reagan. "It was all for states' rights, and it also...
Integrated Textbooks. In the wave of curriculum reform now sweeping the public schools, the techniques of helping children to "discover" truths and relationships is of central importance. Lucy Sprague Mitchell, a John Dewey disciple who founded the school and ran it until her retirement in 1956, knew all about the discovery method many years ago. She had all the school's heating pipes painted red and all the water-pipes blue. Then, when the children asked why, she let them follow the colors to the furnace and water main...
...past, there has been little chance for personal contact with the faculty," the audit states, but the HPC thinks the tutorial will eliminate this problem. And the new course curriculum will strengthen middle level offerings, "giving a more solid, unspecialized background in the field...
...primary reason for the audit's leniency is that the Department has made key reforms on its own this Fall. The institution of a House tutorial and the revised course curriculum will remedy the two greatest deficiencies of the undergraduate program, the HPC says...
...Such use would require space adaptable to adult programs, and it might require some space reserved for adult day-time programs. Of course, the Centers should be planned for week-long and year-round use. This "after-school" use could include a wide variety of programs outside the regular curriculum, such as the Junior Academy of Science, which would bring together public and non-public school children with members of the scientific community in Pittsburgh...