Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boredom is the rarely noted but deadly enemy of education. Not just the gifted but all sorts of children can become misfits, and even high school dropouts, if they have no alternatives to the traditional curriculum. McHenry School District Superintendent Richard Farmer sympathizes with the Irwins. "We have been trying diligently," says he, adding, "but in education, the scramble for funds is the name of the game. When the cuts are made, the handicapped programs are what is protected. Gifted children always get their share of cuts. This lawsuit could answer a fundamental question, and if it is answered, that...
...statement charged that as Harvard "denies the rights of blacks on campus to determine their curriculum, similarly the Corporation rejects the self-determination of black South Africans by opposing the liberation movement in South Africa...
...overriding issue as completely compelling as the war in Indochina," Ansara, the director of Massachusetts Fair Share, said. He added, however, the "job which we began in the sixties remains to be finished" and listed Afro-American Studies, University investments in South Africa, the antinuclear movement and course curriculum as issues that deserve for student attention...
...present, a third visiting committee is surveying the department to determine if it should be relegated to committee status. As a committee, Afro-American studies would not control its own curriculum, and would lose the independent perspective it now offers...
...casualty of the job crunch and changing student mood is the Afro-American studies department, the creation of which was often one of the chief demands of campus militants. "Curriculum demands now run to courses like How to Operate Businesses in the Black Community," says William Banks, Afro-American studies chairman at Berkeley. At Harvard there are only ten Afro-American studies majors this year. Reports Eugene Matthews, a black in Harvard's class of 1980: "I was told not to take many black studies courses because law schools don't look favorably on them." Black studies programs...