Word: offing
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Fletcher Watson, professor of Science Education, said at yesterday's meeting that "a piece of pie can only be sliced in so many ways, and this is a small piece. According to this report the teaching area vanishes."
But Sizer said last week that financial difficulties have had a "definitely secondary" influence on the proposed reforms. He said that major changes in the organization of instruction have been contemplated for years.
In his 1969 Dean's Report, Sizer wrote: "At the School of Education, we criticize academic standardization in schools- yet too often we engage in it ourselves. We not only organize ourselves conventionally; we prescribe, with little justification, a set number of courses of similar length taught in relatively similar...
Moreover, the proliferation of separate degree programs that occurred during the School's dramatic growth has resulted in both duplicated efforts and instability and a lack of cohesion among splinter programs staffed by as few as one or two faculty and vulnerable to shifts in faculty interest and availability.
Last week's policy committee report emphasizes the need for a "division of labor" among the various ed. schools in the country, "since the educational needs of this society far exceed any one institution's capacity to deal with all of them."