Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most participants and coordinators of the summer programs at the Ed School consider the most valuable aspect of these programs to be the opportunity for a frank discussion of educational problems among peers from around the country...
...while all of the summer students live together, and their programs are under the organizational umbrella of the PPE, each is totally independent and the programs cater to a wide variety of student needs...
...Each summer the IEM--which completes its 20th reunion ceremonies today--brings together college presidents, vice presidents and deans to discuss and analyze problems in the management of higher education...
...modeled after a similar program at the Business School, focused discussions on the campus issues of the time, such as, Levine suggests, "how to respond to campus rioting." True to its Business School roots, the IEM utilized the case-study method which continues to dominate the PPE summer programs today...
Another of the Ed School's bigger summer programs, The Institute on the Principal and School Improvement, focuses on administration in secondary education. This program is run under the joint auspices of the PPE and the Harvard Principals' Center, a local year-round organization of approximately 500 people who attend weekly seminars, dinner lectures and workshops during the academic year...