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...envision that basic first-year courses, as well as many upper-level classes and seminars, will be held there,” Story Professor of Law Daniel J. Meltzer ’72, who is also the Vice Dean for Physical Planning, said. “It will become the academic center, the pedagogical center of the Law School...
...legislation emphasizes the real-world philosophy for a general education that was set out in the February report. The legislation says that students in general education courses should “strive to apply the basic concepts and principles to the solution of concrete problems, the accomplishment of specific tasks, and the creation of actual objects and out-of-classroom experiences”—a passage that appears, in nearly identical form, in the February report...
...BASIC QUESTION: WHY TEACH THE BIBLE and not comparative religion? It may not be necessary to provide Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism with equal time, but it seems misguided to ignore faiths that millions of Americans practice each day; and a glance at the headlines further argues for an omnibus course. Yet could a school demand that its already overloaded kids take one elective if they take the other? Concerns about whether a Bible Belt Christian teacher could in good conscience teach a religiously neutral Bible course also plagued me. Was high school Bible study one of those great ideas that...
Prothero may be overly sanguine about the workings of the U.S. court system. But even if he's wrong, this shouldn't stop schools from making some effort to teach the Bible. The study doesn't have to be mandatory. In a national school system overscheduled with basic skills, other topics such as history and literature deserve core status more than Scripture--provided that these classes address it themselves, where appropriate. But if an elective is offered, it should be twinned mandatorily with a world religions course, even if that would mean just a semester of each. Within that period...
Before computing pioneer John Backus and his team at IBM developed Fortran, the first widely used programming language, in the 1950s, computers had to be "hand coded" in wonky strings of digits in order to perform basic functions. Backus' invention allowed programmers to enter human-friendly instructions that computers would then translate on their own. The unprecedented "high level" system, which Backus said was inspired by "being lazy," paved the way for modern software...