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...weeks ago the Reagan Administration proposed its own plan, which would set aside in its 1984 budget $200 million to retrain teachers certified in other subjects for instruction in science and math. Working through state agencies, the plan would provide up to $5000 for unemployed and newly certified teachers. While officials in educational organizations were encouraged by the Administration's concern, they are quick to point out the meagerness of the plan in the face of an enormous crisis. One official in the National Education Association estimated in The New York Times that the plan would provide one teacher each...
...liberal arts curriculum. Sloan will provide $250,000 each to ten colleges, including Williams, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, and $25,000 to others, such as Dartmouth and Bowdoin, to attack the deficiencies of their curriculums. M.I.T. will receive $47,000 to help other colleges prepare tech-oriented courses and retrain faculty...
Either way, the change in Soviet leadership would seem to afford both opportunities and perils for the U.S. On the one hand. President Reagan must be careful to retrain from belligerent anti-Soviet rhetoric. A nation like the U.S.S.R.--manned by new leaders anxious to gain a firmer foothold in power is unlikely to treat the President's words as mere bluster, and a precipitous response could have grave repercussions...
...retain its leadership in American education. Harvard can't make other schools raise more money, but it can make more of an active effort to help out struggling schools on all levels with non-financial resources. More programs are needed like the plans presently forming to have Harvard help retrain Cambridge public school teachers...
...suggest that Adler has neglected one crucial question: Who will teach the teachers? Phil Keisling, an editor of the Washington Monthly, believes that "the legions of incompetent teachers is an even more distressing problem than the laxity of curricular standards." Adler acknowledges that further reforms will be necessary to retrain teachers, and he urges that teachers should receive a solid liberal arts education and "the hell with courses in pedagogy and educational philosophy...