Word: eds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Ed School students are always had so much to say about what is happening to them arises in part from the kinds of people who suppose the HGSE student body. Some are flip about education, and some are very serious, but practically all of them come to the gradual or sudden awareness that the profession they have chosen involves a frighteningly total commitment. Many have traveled the Peace Corps route, or have worked in undergraduate projects in city slums, or in civil rights organizations. Many have already taught, and have faced resistance to new ideas from unimaginative colleagues...
They churned out newsletters and created committees, circulated questionnaires and issued reports, bending the collective ear of the faculty and administration in every way they knew. As a result, they have won the right to consult and participate in the decision-making processes of the Ed School, have begun a systematic evaluation of Ed School courses and procedures, and have taken on the task of criticizing and analyzing the Scheffler Report--a faculty plan for major reform at the Ed School...
...though the attention they have received this year belies it, making themselves heard is not new to Ed School students, for they have a long history of poking around in their own shop...
...Ed School students accept the fact that HGSE is really not interested in being the purveyor of teachers to the nation. They know that the School may supply teachers--by coincidence--but that it clearly concentrates its energies on preparing its students to achieve positions of leadership in teaching, administration, and scholarship...
...Ed School students view Harvard as the place where they can get their hands on the levers that will move education. But when the school has not lived up to their expectations, they have seldom hesitated to make themselves heard, when and where it counts...