Word: curriculums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These space-age children are taking an experimental science curriculum drawn up by University of California Physicist Robert Karplus, 32, whose specialty is not elementary school teaching but elementary particles. (Sample Karplus research paper: "Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory-The Vertex Function.") A Vienna-born infant prodigy who could multiply four-digit numbers in his head before he went to first grade, Harvard-trained (Ph.D., 1948) Karplus got to worrying about schools after he became a father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that...
...collared man of headmasterly mien, Carl Hansen was born in Wolbach, Neb. (pop. 442), graduated from the University of Nebraska, got his doctorate at the University of Southern California. As an English teacher (and later principal) at Omaha's Technical High School, he developed a three-level English curriculum, forerunner of his four-track system. Long before going to Washington in 1947, he had hammered out a tough-minded notion of priorities: "Out of the unbelievable range and variety of human activities and experiences, only a limited number of basic ones can be selected for teaching in the classroom...
...single powerful professional organization with full responsibility for educational policy on a nation wide scale. His model: the American Medical Association, which keeps a sharp eye on the certification and standards of physicians throughout the nation. "We must see to it," says Lieberman, "that nonprofessional determination of the curriculum is as unthinkable as nonprofessional determination of the techniques of brain surgery...
...Bird. Curriculum is the famed phonetic reading system invented by 75-year-old Dr. Frank C. Laubach. As a Congregationalist missionary in the Philippines 30 years ago, Laubach designed picture-word-syllable charts of the Maranaw language, launched an "Each-One-Teach-One" campaign among Moro tribesmen that made them 90% literate in a few months. The system is simple: an English student begins with consonants, learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed...