Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington, Federal Security Administrator Oscar L. Ewing aired an idea of his own that might lengthen high-school courses. Ewing's proposal: to give basic military training as part of the curriculum, even though it might mean an extra year in high school.What would be needed after that, Ewing thought, was a Government agency to sift the graduates, determine "how many, and who, will be assigned to military service, to college training, and to industry...
Ever since 1937, when St. John's College at Annapolis made education history by basing its curriculum on the Great Books, it has been getting occasional inquiries from women who wanted to enroll. Last week, after years of saying no, St. John's changed its policy. Next fall, announced the Board of Visitors and Governors, the college hopes to have 50 freshmen coeds -the first in St. John's 254-year history...
...been with Chicago for 20 years. During that time he developed the famed Great Books curriculum and the Chicago study-at-your-own-speed program...
Unless English A is removed from the curriculum, any student entering next year who has not been excused from English and who has not fulfilled his language requirement will be forced to take five courses, since next year three G.E. courses will be required . . . Silence may be golden, but I for one do not intend to be crucified on a cross of gold. (Name withheld by request...
Meanwhile, other anti-Goslinites had been denouncing his reformed curriculum as too progressive. They organized a School Development Council, bought radio time to air their opposition. "There is far too much paint-daubing," cried the Pasadena Independent, "[and] far too little discipline." Many a Pasadena parent agreed: some were sincerely worried about the elimination of report cards in the lower grades (though that was a pre-Goslin innovation) and what seemed a lack of emphasis on the three...