Scheffler Proposals Set For Ed School Adoption

The Graduate School of Education has all but appropriated the recommendations of the Scheffler Report into its school policy.

The Faculty of the Ed School meets today to discuss, and probably adopt, the two proposals from the report remaining to be considered. Action on these items will conclude the faculty's review of the report.

The first recommendation calls for the elimination of certain one year Master's Degree Programs leading to the Ed.M. The second recommendation calls for the elimination of written "appraisal examinations" which presently allow students to bypass some course requirements.

Both recommendations are part of a larger plan outlined in the Scheffler Report to shift the School's emphasis away from the Master's programs training teachers to its Doctoral program emphasizing research and the training of professors and educational administrators.

The report also is aimed at revising the curriculum for all students and emphasizing the Master of Arts and Teaching Program (MAT) as pre-doctoral work, and not as self sufficient professional training.

At the December meeting of the Ed School faculty, seven recommendations from the Scheffler Report were discussed, and after a few alterations, most of them were adopted.

The report called for an expanded MAT program lasting two years to replace the present one year Ed.M. program. The Scheffler Committee suggested a year's academic residence, preceded by a summer of clinical initiation, and followed by up to a year of supervised paid internship. The report also asked for a revised curriculum.

End of Ed.M.

The report recommended that the Ed.M. be eliminated or "radically restricted" and that the top priority be given to the Ed.D. programs. In December's meeting, the Faculty eliminated the Ed.M. in elementary teaching and replaced it with the Master of Arts and Teaching. Program in elementary teaching. Abolition of other Ed.M. programs will be discussed today.

The report proposed that the School develop short-term, non-degree institutes dealing with social and such professional issues as cultural deprivation, desegregation, and the role of counseling to supplement regular instruction. The recommendation was adopted unanimously without change.