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Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir（回忆录）of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.
Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.
Graduate work at theUniversityofChicagofound him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher ofOhioStateUniversitywhere he further developed a new method of testing.
Tylerbecame well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study fromOhioStateUniversityto theUniversityofChicagoat the invitation of Robert Hutchins.
Tylerwas the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent（独立的）spirit in their work.
AlthoughTylerofficially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in theUnited Statesand abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives（目标）that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.
【題組】68．Who are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler’s memoir?
(A)Top managers.
(B)Language learners.
(C)Serious educators.
(D)Science organizations.
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