Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge makes little difference in the quantity of nine-o'clock or hour exams. When mud puddles swoosh in the streets and everybody is nasty and wet, Vag sometimes fails to preserve his charming manner; but that's no reason to slap five courses onto the University's enormous curriculum...
...coordinated earlier ideas and experiments, formulated and carried out a complete philosophy of education. New devices have been developed since Dewey, but still the core of Progressive Education are his central ideas: that children should be treated as individuals, a child's interests and needs should shape the curriculum, children should learn by doing (i.e., taking trips, building, painting), should practice democracy, should learn to solve the same kind of problems they will meet after school...
...courses include one on Air Transportation, to be given by Professor George Baker. Two subjects given for the first time this year are correlated with the curriculum at the Littauer School, while two others have been organized for the first time on a formal basis...
Twenty freshmen started the new curriculum in its first year. By last week two had flunked out, five others had quit. But the 13 survivors were excited about their novel course, their crack teachers. Said Student Bowen Weisheit: "These fellows teach differently from any teachers I ever had. I don't know how it is, but there's something they do that just makes it click...
More than 85% of the students attending U.S. public high schools today must find jobs soon after graduation. Yet a large percent of U.S. high schools stubbornly maintain a curriculum designed chiefly for college preparatory training...