Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fantastic Species. Such intriguing seminars for fifth-graders are now commonplace in schools using an experimental social studies program called "Man: A Course of Study." The one-year course was devised by Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, director of Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, Irven DeVore, professor of anthropology...
Though it has not been formally adopted by any school system, "Man: A Course of Study" is now being taught in 1,000 public-and private-school classrooms throughout the U.S. Wholesale acceptance seems remote: the course materials are expensive (roughly $4 per pupil v. $1 for an ordinary course...
One Family. The statement was typical of the 43-year-old dynamo who used to be Sister Jacqueline of the order of the Sisters of Loretto. Ten years ago, "Sister J." became president of Webster College, a small Catholic women's school near St. Louis. From that unlikely platform...
To get production under way, Boeing had to construct one of the world's largest buildings?a plant covering 42.8 acres at Everett, Wash. Inside that vast space, the engineers encountered vast problems. The aircraft's weight grew by 15 tons from its projected 340 tons, and Pratt & Whitney had...
The City Manager also said he was interested in the possibility of a "combined development"- including low income housing. government facilities, and private business- over the whole of the 42 acre urban renewal site. Last week, he appointed a task force to study the possibilities for use of the site...