Word: locksteps
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last week the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education* proposed drastic and important changes in the traditional lockstep pattern. At one level, the commission envisions a simplified system that would sharply reduce the "credential society's" 1,600 specialized degrees to 160. Full-time students could earn degrees faster. High schools would teach college-freshman courses, for example, thus creating three-year colleges. The often needless and narrow Ph.D. degree would be limited to a few researchers. The standard advanced degree would be a new doctor of arts, earned only four years after...
...experience of Italian Educator Maria Montessori and the research of Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget. Though academic structure is outwardly minimal in such informal schooling, says Silberman, it becomes apparent to children as they explore the books and materials that knowing adults select for them. Moreover, teachers freed from lockstep group discipline can observe individual children more carefully, prodding them to move beyond easy materials and stick with difficult ones...
When Manning came to Stanford in 1964, he was determined to break the traditional lockstep of three-year law school curriculums. Today the school boasts a remarkable variety of degree programs, tailored to each student's particular interests. As a result, Stanford...
Life would be richer, students of aging agree, if a wider repertory of activities were encouraged throughout life. Almost everyone now marches together in a sort of lockstep. They spend years in school, years at work and years in retirement. Youth might well work more, the middle-aged play more, and the older person go back to school. Former HEW Secretary John Gardner wants to see "midcareer clinics to which men and women can go to re-examine the goals of their working lives and consider changes of direction. I would like to see people visit such clinics with...