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Another tradition is that of research and scholarship; the Ed School describes its offerings in this area as "programs leading to specialization in education," and stresses testing and curriculum construction. Scheffler believes that too many discussions of education have centered around teacher training and feels that "there is a lot to be said for the other side--what education needs first is some emphasis on scholarship...
Finally, there is the tradition of community service. Harvard's Center for Research and Development on Educational Differences, which cooperates with a dozen local school systems in studying such problems as the effects of a student's background on his desire to learn, partly exemplifies the service tradition. Scheffler emphasizes that, through programs like this, professional schools can act as the "sense organs of a university," that they can be "feeding points where problems come in" and theory is tested against practice...
...except Scheffler knows what his report will say. It is extremely doubtful, however, that any one of the three traditions will be given prominence to the exclusion of the others. Some startling suggestions were made at committee meetings during the year--abolishing the Ed School, for example--but none of the committee's members, according to Scheffler, is an extremist. "There was a substantial feeling that there is value in trying to bring the three interpretations under one roof, and trying to develop them in conjunction with one another," he recalls...
Dean Sizer's timetable calls for final approval of the Scheffler report by the end of the 1965-66 academic year; but it has had at least one pre-publication effect. After the committee's discussions showed agreement on that the faculty organize itself into the question, Dean Sizer proposed six areas, and the faculty, at its April meeting, agreed. The new structure will go into effect next Fall, for an experimental period of one year...
Together with this innovation will go two other changes, one bureaucratic and one physical, also designed to improve communications. The faculty's system of standing committees has been revised, in order to deal with the suggestions that are expected to emerge from the area groups. (The Scheffler Committee will metamorphose into a permanent committee on academic policy.) And over the summer, the Ed School will move into its red-brick Roy E. Larsen Tower, which features "department centers" on each floor. The centers--already christened "water holes"--include kitchenettes, and large windows; they are designed to encourage informal shop talk...