Word: core
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...success is strict regulation on how courses fit into those categories; without regulation, the new “Core” will inevitably devolve into its current incarnation, in which courses are included without regard for their content. The entire rationale for the demolition of the Core, however, is to remove the idea from general education that content is of secondary importance to methodology. The strongest defense that the new general education has to differentiate itself from the Core in the long term is the idea that the new Standing Committee on General Education will be endowed with a clearly...
...push for the Republican Party to return to its roots because of his support of abortion. When, since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, has the GOP been pro-choice? Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, no one questions that the Republican Party is, at its core, not a pro-choice party in regards to abortion. Is she confusing the Republican Party with the Democratic Party? Or even the Libertarian Party? Is this really published by The Crimson...
...fundraising Republicans and Democrats alike by his campaign finance crusade, which produced not only real legislation but also, through his aggressive chairmanship of the Indian Affairs Committee, help bring to light the scandalous backroom dealings of Jack Abramoff, dealings which greatly contributed to the GOP drifting from their core values and losing the election...
...work, and that changes everything," says Marc Tucker, vice chairman of the commission and president of the National Center for Education and the Economy in Washington. "To be competitive the kids coming out of our high schools are going to have to match the best performance worldwide in the core subjects and excel in creative and innovative skills...
...that the General Education task force has lost its faith in religion, the long-anticipated Gen Ed overhaul looks more like the Core than it has at any point during the four-year-long curricular review. The Faculty’s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating...