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Before the Ed School joined the Johnson-inspired crusade for federalization, the school had focused on suburban schooling. The now-defunct Master of Arts in Teaching program used to train students for cushy positions in Brookline and Scarsdale. But eight years ago inflation, the disintegration of urban public education and a disappearing teacher's job market combined to force the elimination of many programs with direct ties to schools; the educational elite had decided that the Great Society would create the perfect classroom with broad-based, centralized planning. "All of those things were valid," Ylvisaker says, adding that, "We want...
Quickly assembled committees, faculty seminars and plans for short-term training sessions are the most obvious evidence of the Ed School's reaction to the findings of a major self-evaluative study completed in December under the direction of Roland S. Barth, a lecturer at the school. Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the Ed School, believes that this reaction indicates a shift away from a "dangerously negative posture, an attitude of neo-conservatism," which had blurred educators' aims during the last fifteen years. Ylvisaker commissioned the special study late last spring to examine the relationship between the Ed School...
...developed in the late 1960's, and he scorns the notion that such organizations would untangle the knots in the public school system "if only those agencies had enough money, or the right sort of staff, or better training, or the appropriate legislative mandate." Instead, Barth suggests that the Ed School give added attention to individual schools and their "leaders" (principals, teachers and parents) in an effort to identify the components of a successful public school. "We have come to a realization after a decade of individually-oriented programs withering away that it is dangerous for a graduate school...
...former Newton public school principal outlines several specific ways to assist local leaders in creating an effective classroom, including the establishment of a new one-year program in "school leadership." Fueled by foundation grants totaling $327,000, the Ed School has already begun to implement plans for a case study research project and a summer institute for school administrators. The results of biweekly faculty seminars now underway will become the basis for a series of practioner workshops scheduled to being next fall. Ylvisaker will need much more money to complete these endeavors, but he says, "There is a good deal...
Despite the layman's astonishment that the Ed School would now have to be reminding itself to minister to individual schools, experts such as Gerald S. Lesser, Charles Bigelow professor of Education and Developmental Psychology and a member of the group that assisted in the preparation of Barth's report, calmly insist that "there are always a lot of ebbs and flows in educational philosophy. We have never really been disassociated with secondary schools." Ylvisaker adds, "This is not a 180 degree change...We were missing one balancing wire and this...