Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolic nod, a head feint" in the direction of a basic education, Bennett says...
...minimum, Bennett says, a solid core curriculum must encompass "the basic body of knowledge which universities once took it upon themselves as their obligation to transmit, under the name of a liberal education...
...stated aim of Harvard's five-year-old Core Curriculum is to introduce students to different "modes of learning" or academic approaches. Its authors eschewed the notion that students should be required to master a basic body of knowledge--or that such a body of knowledge could be defined...
...cannot protect the basic principle ofacademic freedom," he says, "then we cannot evenbegin to hope that our colleges and universitieswill evolve into a recognizable imitation of whatthey claim...
...REAGAN Administration's crusade for the screening of all federal employees for drug abuse is a policy that can be cited for absurdity before citing it as offending against basic civil rights. Could they not fire that mythic crack-smoking federal employee based on a far simpler index than drug levels in blood--like job performance...