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...initiative of interested students and faculty rather than from the administration. MAT's have actively sought urban internships and the number of MAT's being trained in the core city schools jumped from four last year to twenty-nine this year. George B. Thomas, director of the Ed School's Center for Field Activities, is supervising a field-study course, which is placing 50 students in groups of six to eight in community agencies throughout Boston. An undetermined number of students are pursuing independent study in the field. According to a summer study by four MAT students (also at their...
...AREAS where the administration had to take the initiative there has been little apparent progress. The Ed School's Faculty Committee on Academic Policy is now considering the report's grading proposal, with no sure indication of when it will make a decision. Sizer's position on tenure is cautious support for the Curle-Whitten report, but the Faculty has not got beyond "discussing" the matter...
Equally important, financial problems have forced Sizer to choose between research projects and programs for training urban teachers. The Ed School has one of the lowest endowments in the University (less than two percent of the University's total), dependent on grants for two thirds of its funds. It runs a perpetual deficit, compounded in the past few years by an expensive project to construct a new library...
...FACULTY intransigeance on grading is not what it seems. Two years ago, with Sizer's backing, the Faculty voted a laissez-faire policy on grading -- professors are completely free to decide whether or not they want to give finals or grades. Now, over half the Ed School's courses are ungraded, and the number increases yearly...
Daniel S. Gilbarg, a first-year student at the Ed School who spoke to Cleaver's Ramparts secretary yesterday, said the Black Panther leader hopes to get to Harvard before the end of October. But a new date for the lecture has not yet been...