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Arthur G. Powell confronted the legacy of Eliot and his predecessors while serving as associate dean of the Ed School from 1968 to 1976. In his history of the institution, The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority, Powell chronicles the metamorphosis of the "Division of Education," which limped through the first 20 years of the century under the burden of unending criticism, into a respected graduate school. The saga, one of bitter disagreement and jarring philosophical gyrations, provides a sober backdrop for the current dissatisfaction with efforts to improve American education...
Although Powell's chronology is often tedious, his concern with detail emphasizes the book's most alarming point: the Ed School never established a clear path for itself after the initial transition from Eliot's movement for secondary school reform to the acceptance of responsibility for improving the entire public school system...
Field coach Ed Stowell has mixed feelings about his squad's prospects for the spring season, admitting to some very strong events balanced with several weaker ones...
...expected, we found that Chinese education suffered terribly during the Cultural Revolution and through most of the '70s, but there is now a major political and academic commitment to make up for that gap," Francis Keppel, a senior lecturer at the Ed School said yesterday...
...former Ed School dean also said that politics underscores their enthusiasm toward American educators: "It is quite obvious that the Soviets are no longer the models. They (the Chinese) teach English everywhere, but very few are learning Russian...