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Word: reinterested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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Zacharias' M.I.T.-sponsored Physical Science Study Committee used a simple principle: it got top university scholars to reinterest themselves in high schools, after decades of leaving such tasks as textbook writing to standpat educationists. University physicists, knowing the basic unity of their subject, were shocked at the bits-and-pieces approach of high school texts, and devised a thematic course now used by 30% of all high school physics students. The example was so appealing that other university scholars plunged into other school subjects. Now, math, biology, chemistry, foreign languages and even English are all bubbling with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools: A Burst of Reform | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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