Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students at the Graduate School of Education began a massive effort for reform at the Ed School this weekend...
Donald W. Oliver, professor of Education said yesterday that the students were not attacking the problem of reform correctly. He explained that reform-minded students have only been concerned with changing established policies rather than obtaining a voice in the policy-making process...
...need avant-garde students," Oliver said, "who are willing to push the administration to the breaking point to see if there is a basic willingness to change." The main force blocking reform, he added, has always been the apathy and indifference of the students...
...students who are agitating for reform admit that student apathy is a shortcomings in the school's programs...
Students are also dissatisfied with the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching program. Terry Van Brunt, another of the students involved in the reform movement, said that a great number of MAT graduates leave teaching after a single year. "Harvard's not training teachers" he said," who are equipped with the experience and know-how to cope with the conditions they face in the schools...