Word: assignments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise, refused to supervise any extracurricular activities. Last week, in an attempt to end the deadlock, the city's Board of Education passed the buck to its high-school principals. Armed with a ruling from the State Education Department, it adopted a new regulation which ordered principals to assign "reasonable amounts [of work] outside of regular classroom instruction," and threatened recalcitrant teachers with charges of insubordination and possible dismissal...
Lastly, the report states that in assignment study topics for the groups, departments should allow tutors freedom to assign work fitting the interests of the group. However, broad departmental direction is deemed necessary to prevent either overspectalization or advance to following individual course lines...
...final controversial features of the Council proposals deserve consideration: tutorial content and grading. As the Blackmer Report points out, the present content of tutorial in several departments is either overspecialized or aimless. Any new program should allow tutors freedom to assign work fitting the individual interests of each group. But it should also receive broad departmental direction to insure that the work cuts across course lines...
Sociology Professor Chou Ching-yao: "I used to assign English books to my students, and always wanted my students to go to America . . . This was a most serious crime...
...large number of people of any type apply to a certain House, the University must decide whether it will violate the individual's freedom of choice and assign him to a different House to keep the Houses cross-sections...