Word: edu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Sizer will go on teaching his course in "British and American Edu cation since 1870." But his real job lies in raising money, unifying the patchwork school and refocusing its mission. Sizer hopes to put even more stress on practice teaching, but in urban schools rather than the almost exclusively suburban schools that now feed off Harvard. Given the disarray of big-city schools-Boston's are a compelling example-it is high time for Harvard to help out. Happily, Sizer seems to be right on target...
...areas, guided by reason, tradition and literary clues, and learned what he could from surface finds. The "digger" school deplores this approach as super ficial. Nothing counts, say the diggers, until the careful, laborious toil of exca vation has extracted every droplet of evidence. To the strict diggers, the edu cated estimates of the surface men are all too fallible. The balanced truth is that each method has advantages, de pending on the nature of the country and the sites...
...state-run universities are little more than incubators for budding young revolutionaries. But the speaker was Rector Jorge R. Camargo of Argentina's Catholic University of Córdoba, and his words describe a notable trend in Latin America: the rise of Roman Catholic universities devoted exclusively to edu cation, where the signs on the bulletin board are mimeographed class schedules, not student calls to arms...
...first obstacle is the education "establishment" - a complex of education professors and National Education Association groups that guide state edu cation departments in setting certification rules, which in turn dictate college curriculums. In recent years the establishment has tightened the rules - nobly, it believes - to stress subject matter and a trend toward five years of teacher training. But this is not necessarily an improvement, says Conant. The same education courses remain, while the establishment, with "frightening rigidity," endorses only "approved programs" -most of them academically anemic...
...Scholars in the academic disciplines have long suspected that pretentious edu cationist jargon [Aug. 9] betrays a scar city of actual content. This "educanto" seems to be a brave facade hiding a bleakness of thought, a paucity of ideas and an intellectual immaturity...