Word: curriculum
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Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first day of integration three weeks ago, when truancy was rife, is that "my Franklin kids stuck with...
Virginia's lively Hollins College boasts one of the country's key teaching machine projects (and a rare statistics major for women). At Iowa's Easterner-beckoning Simpson College, all students take in a new "Vital Center" curriculum designed to ask questions and pose answers about Western and Oriental civilization. Ohio's strong little Hiram College, which sends 80% of its students to graduate schools, gives a student only three courses at a time, to encourage more intensive study. At Florida's Stetson University near Daytona Beach, where students can get learned and burned...
Still further changes in the AROTC program are in the planning stage now, Hennessy indicated. A proposal to add more College-taught courses to the curriculum and to decrease Army instruction will go before the Faculty sometime this year, he said...
This is not merely another anachronistic attempt to make Jesus a regular fellow, explained the denomination's director of curriculum, the Rev. Robert Koenig of Philadelphia. The flowing robes in which Christ is conventionally pictured were used only for traveling, as a sort of combination overcoat and blanket; archaeological research has shown that workingmen on the job wore short trousers and a short tunic-like shirt. To emphasize Christ's manliness, it had been decided to portray him in shorts, said Dr. Koenig, instead of in the traditional robe, which "suggests a feminine softness...
...stories to her baby sitters. After Venn came 35 other children, many of them from Hamden Hall, a suburban New Haven private school, which now plans to set up a sizable Moore-style lab. On the evidence so far, Hamden Hall may have to revamp its entire primary school curriculum. One girl of not quite four read at third-grade level after Moore's training; less gifted three-year-olds have been learning to read and print in only 14 weeks...