Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire group went along with the proposal. The only thing of which everyone agreed was their enchantment with typical educational research, the kind that production an article in an obscure journal were, a minor curriculum change in a cool system there...
Late in 1964, a few faculty member and students at the Graduate school of Education met to discuss bring up their own school, complete with their own students and their own curriculum...
Oliver was just completing a major research project -- a three-year high school social studies curriculum in rich students were taught how to analyze controversial issues. According to a colleague, Oliver already had questions about the results and was sure that he had accomplished anything significant by developing a since high school curriculum. As he put in a later memorandum...
...high schools without getting bogged down in the programs of each school system or in the varying interests of each researcher. Their first answer was simple. After testing their ideas for a year in an urban high school, the thirty researchers would retreat to their own model school. Its curriculum would be their own; its student body would be typical of an urban school, some bound for college, and many not. There they would complete their research -- or carry it on indefinitely. It became known as the "Crazy School...
...either way, their aim was to transform American education. They frequently referred to themselves as "manufacturers." They would first design their product, the new curriculum; test it in a laboratory; then adapt it for a trial assembly line -- the co-operating school system -- and finally, they hoped, for many assembly lines...