Word: reportedly
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...Conant report is, then, a political document, designed to sway school boards and school principals. It is written in terms which the least sophisticated can really grasp, equipped with check lists and inventories which a ten-year-old could easily administer. The appeal throughout is to that great political slogan: individual freedom and variation. Although the major emphasis of the report is on providing higher academic standards for the intelligent minority, this appeal is surrounded with recommendations which appeal to every special interest group from vocationalism to the mentally retarted...
Mixed faculty response yesterday greeted the Report of the Committee on Science in General Education. Opposition centered around the report's recommendations for more science instructors on the elementary level and greater intensity in lower level Nat Sci courses...
...Such first hand experience with actual science is necessary for any educated person," Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, countered. Aiken supported the report's conclusion that General Education in the natural sciences must include detailed knowledge of some particular science...
Stouffer Praises Report...
Another non-science Faculty member, Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, concurred wholeheartedly with the report, terming it "a very sound and sensible job." He noted that a stronger program would increase the enticements of natural science as a career...