Word: curriculums
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Last week members of the American Institute of Biological Sciences opened a six-week meeting at the University of Colorado in Boulder to put some life into the study of living things by revising the high school curriculum from amoeba to zygote. With an initial $738,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which has already spent more than $8,000,000 to upgrade high school physics, math and chemistry, the biologists have no illusions about producing high schools full of biology majors. But they do hope to increase the percentage considerably, and at the very least give every youngster...
Last week M.I.T. moved toward an in triguing solution: a big-brother relation with small (1,254 fulltime students), distant, little-known Oklahoma City University. Under "The Great Plan," as O.C.U. proudly calls it, M.I.T. will completely revamp the school's curriculum. Supervised by five M.I.T.-recruited professors, O.C.U. next fall will put about 25 bright freshmen in an honors program of high-caliber English, foreign languages, physics and math. By the time the program spreads to all students, O.C.U. hopes to be producing education that matches M.I.T...
Died. Marion Edwards Park, 84, the third president (1922-42) of high-ranking Bryn Mawr College, who did much to liberalize the rigid curriculum by permitting more electives, in 1926 daringly urged her graduates to seek a career-for a year, at least; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Plymouth, Mass...
What kept standards high? Answers Marson: the detailed high-school curriculum prescribed by the powerful College Entrance Examination Board of the time, and the fact that Harvard accepted boys only for academic excellence. But around 1935, Harvard added nonacademic admission criteria: photographs, social poise, athletic prowess. "The real crusher" came in the 1940s when Harvard and other College Board members abolished the old essay examinations (in all subjects) and "substituted the present objective and objectionable tests of today...
...curriculum ("learning through play") has not changed in 100 years. But "today's fives are tired of play; they are eager and ready to begin serious work." They have been exposed to travel, nursery schools and working mothers. They visit the public library and fly in airplanes. They dial the telephone, operate hi-fi sets and read words on TV. Yet teachers persist in mindless "fun"-and leave the kids sucking their thumbs...