Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperate plight of the American Indian. Symbolic of Indian treatment. Wounded Knee bleeds and festers with an indignant discontent indicative that change is needed, and needed quickly. Violence can never be condoned, but something must be tremendously awry in our society if only through violence can minorities progress out of poverty and ignorance. If America does not heal its Wounded Knee, it will become crippled for life...
...attack-or, at the very least, under crossexamination. That wisdom has been variously called liberalism, rationalism, scientism: concepts certainly not identical but related. But now man's confidence in his power to control his world is at a low ebb. Technology is seen as a dangerous ally, and progress is suspect. Even the evolutionists share this unease; their hope lies not in man as he is but in some mutant superman...
...continuing dependence on standardized tests to judge a child's progress shows how little has been accomplished by the bountiful writing on educational reform. We still expect our children to learn certain skills by certain ages. They still spend about six hours each day in a building called a school, sitting in classrooms arranged to facilitate order and discipline...
...solve the first problem they proposed "open" classrooms where children would be allowed to experiment with their own ideas, and progress at their own speed. Teachers would offer guidance and encouragement instead of systematic directions. In response to the second they advocated local control of the schools. They said a child's education should reflect the concerns of his own community, not those of a centralized white-dominated bureaucracy. Efforts in both directions have met with little progress, encountering continual resistance from school boards and state government...
...personally in the same institutions. Advocates of the open classroom gave priority to development of maturity and felt, or at least hoped that academic abilities would naturally follow. Teachers in standard public schools emphasize acquisition of skills at the expense of everything else. Sizer's division allows work to progress on both fronts without conflict, and probably with mutual reinforcement...