Word: gse
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...also stressed the importance of television, family and the community as instruments of learning. Educational television programs such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company, as well as production outfits like the Children's Television Workshop, were all developed at the GSE and have made important contributions to modern education, he said...
Discussing the role of the GSE in society, Ylvisaker said the school had a "moral obligation" to support the public school system because it is "too vital a parrt of the American tradition, too important in the lives and hopes of our less privileged families and children, to allow them to be victimized by a political calculus that counts only the declining voting strength of parents with children still in school...
...example of the GSE's commitment to public education under his leadership is the recent establishment of a center for school principals. The center provides training for propsective principals and serves as a resource base for technical assistance. During the last two years the center has served about 30 principals in the Boston area...
Though Ylvisaker said he does not know whom the advisory committee will select as his successor, he said Bok might use the GSE deanship to show his support for affirmative action. "The prospects for a woman dean are fairly high," he added...
Under Ylvisaker's leadership, the GSE has attained the University's highest percentages of minorities and women, both in its faculty and in its student body...