Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Thin Drippings. Except for some "thin drippings" on cultural subjects, says Lynd the summer curriculum consists mostly of the so-called "professional" courses, which spin out "the simplest teaching procedures into astonishing lists of redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio-Visual Education, with an eleventh in "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials." Says Lynd: "There seems to be a transcendent mystique of administering anything in the schoo world more complex than a pencil...
...average student was unfortunately less receptive to music than was the janitor--it was still a novelty in the curriculum--and for a few years the Music Building was not too well attended. The Department even found it necessary to keep its introductory courses "sugar-coated" to attract customers. But an energetic faculty and a rising interest in music have changed all this. Prominent musicians, Wanda Landowska among others, came to give lectures and concerts in the auditorium; the Charles Eliot Norton Fund brought Stravinsky and, this year, Paul Hindemith, as visiting lecturers...
...lessons with little regard for what made children remember or forget them. Then such educator-philosophers as Pragmatist John Dewey began to broadcast new theories. To them, children could learn as much from experience, from solving real-life problems and from doing, as from drilling out of books. The curriculum, said Dewey, must be elastic, the school a miniature society; education was "living and not a preparation for future living...
Denver was not a frontier for long. By 1902 it had 37 schools-and its rising school population was beginning to outgrow them. Stately Superintendent Aaron Gove added sewing and cooking to the still rigid curriculum; roughriding Lucius Hallett bulled through a $6,000,000 bond issue to build three new high schools and enlarge ten other buildings; under able Jesse Newlon, teachers finally won a single salary scale. During the 1920s the city saw 26 new schools rise up all over town. But the race between the rising buildings and rising enrollments never seemed to stop. When 43-year...
...schools, he is not forced too hard to learn things he is not ready to learn; nor is he often kept back a grade. That, in the view of Superintendent Oberholtzer, would shake his self-confidence. Through high school, he has a special counselor who tries to adapt his curriculum as much as possible to fit his wants, abilities and needs. Explains Oberholtzer: "You can't give the same educational fare to all children, any more than you can give all Americans the same breakfast food every morning." Only by bending the curriculum to each pupil's needs...