Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the other changes, however, have come at the initiative of interested students and faculty rather than from the administration. MAT's have actively sought urban internships and the number of MAT's being trained in the core city schools jumped from four last year to twenty-nine this year. George B. Thomas, director of the Ed School's Center for Field Activities, is supervising a field-study course, which is placing 50 students in groups of six to eight in community agencies throughout Boston. An undetermined number of students are pursuing independent study in the field. According...
...tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups of dissidents from all programs began yelling for reforms, many totally unrelated to the revolution in the nation's streets...
Second, Curle and Whitten continued, many Ed School courses were lacking in "relevance" -- a dainty way of saying that the school was not paying enough attention to studying urban problems or preparing its graduates to teach in urban schools. The report recommended that an ad hoc committee begin formulating a new program of urban studies, and further, that the school establish a new "criterion of intellectual vigor." Specifically, the authors felt that students interested in field work should be encouraged to work with community educational agencies and other educational groups and should be given credit and supervision. Professors had long...
Finally, the Curle-Whitten report pointed out that the Ed School seriously neglected the teaching of pedagogy, a particular handicap for Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students who each year graduate from Longfellow Hall into brutal urban classrooms...
Equally important, financial problems have forced Sizer to choose between research projects and programs for training urban teachers. The Ed School has one of the lowest endowments in the University (less than two percent of the University's total), dependent on grants for two thirds of its funds. It runs a perpetual deficit, compounded in the past few years by an expensive project to construct a new library...