Word: ares
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Dissatisfied with the high school preparation of some Harvard students, professors are being forced to reconsider the proper role of the Core Curriculum and the basic function of higher education.
"Our hands are tied, our feet are tied," said one SPOA representative. "We're on the ground and you people are still kicking us."
While some faculty members say that university education should be devoted solely to the analysis of ideas, others insist that colleges must teach the basic facts that secondary schools are failing to convey to their students.
And 10 years after Harvard's Core Curriculum was touted as the new model for undergraduate education, Harvard's administrators are taking a step back--and considering whether the secondary school preparation its undergraduates have received is compatible with the Core's "modes of learning" approach.
And while administrators say they will not make any policy changes until the studies are completed, the initial results have confirmed the fears of some faculty members.