Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There have been gains of course. Even Boston's petrified school administration has cracked at the extremities and yielded up a few experiments in community involvement (not control): most notable is the King-Timilty decentralized district, in which a Parent Council advises the school system on the operation of two Roxbury junior highs. Repeated confrontations have radicalized increasing numbers of the ghetto's sleeping residents, with black students themselves among the most militant and least controllable...
...Faculty must maintain its responsibility for the certification of the A.B. degree and that some measure of comparative performance is necessary in order to make this certification possible." The letter also says that "academic performance which is not measured against a uniform standard can quickly deteriorate to a system of personal patronage...
Hutchins said that the faculty kept the junior essay system this year because the committee and the procedures are already set up. He added that some stu- dents expecting to write the essay might be at a disadvantage if it were eliminated or they were asked to submit something written earlier. For example, some tutorials may write few papers in anticipation of the essay exam
...laws, the nine student directors include two from the graduate schools of Harvard, one from the graduate schools of M.I.T., three Harvard undergraduates, one. Radcliffe student, and two M.I.T. undergraduates. Traditionally the stockholders have nominated these students on the recommendations of their deans. While not particularly democratic, this system had produced, Brown believes, interested and responsible directors...
...representative. Instead of running as part of the stockholders' nominations, student candidates could run in a separate election. In this way any students interested in running for a seat on the board of directors would have a fair chance. To insure a certain continuity, the directors could devise a system of staggered elections and two-year terms...