Word: eds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fall, many reformers are still waiting for the wave to break. In its own quiet way, the Ed School has begun a genuine program of change. But as Sizer puts it, "it's not revision, it's evolution." The Ed School's upheaval subsided in the face of some very old problems: the need to balance action programs with academic inquiry, and lack of money...
...movement for change received its first unified statement last May in a Report on a Study of Academic Programs at the Ed School, written at Sizer's request by Adam Curle, professor of Education and Development, and Phillip Whitten, newly-elected head of the Ed School Student Association. Curle and Whitten conducted extensive interviews throughout the School, and made 18 concrete proposals for change. These can be generalized to four key demands...
Second, Curle and Whitten continued, many Ed School courses were lacking in "relevance" -- a dainty way of saying that the school was not paying enough attention to studying urban problems or preparing its graduates to teach in urban schools. The report recommended that an ad hoc committee begin formulating a new program of urban studies, and further, that the school establish a new "criterion of intellectual vigor." Specifically, the authors felt that students interested in field work should be encouraged to work with community educational agencies and other educational groups and should be given credit and supervision. Professors had long...
Finally, the Curle-Whitten report pointed out that the Ed School seriously neglected the teaching of pedagogy, a particular handicap for Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students who each year graduate from Longfellow Hall into brutal urban classrooms...
...majority of its suggestions made reality by the fall. So far, however, the record is mixed. The issue of admitting more minority-group students had been decided by the time the report appeared. Because of the Faculty's April vote on recruiting, the entering class of the Ed School this year is 17 percent black, and Sizer, while opposing quotas, expects the percentage to be at least that high in the future...