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...first few days shot up to No. 3 on the Amazon best-seller list. The panel members worked overtime on the launch, doing carefully choreographed rounds of interviews with reporters and anchors before Baker and Hamilton motored back to the Hill to start selling their plan to Congress. The core message: the Bush Administration has to work and think a lot harder to achieve even modest goals in Iraq--and should start by accepting the report in its entirety. "I hope," said Baker, "we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say, 'I like this...
Many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call "portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning--the U.S. curriculum needs to become more like that of Singapore, Belgium and Sweden, whose students outperform American students on math and science tests. Classes in these countries dwell on key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details so often served in U.S. classrooms. Textbooks and tests support this approach. "Countries from Germany to Singapore have extremely...
...measure requiring evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants is on the agenda for Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—along with another round of debate over the succesor to the Core Curriculum...
Thus, even though John Haddock successfully implemented the core of his campaign platform, he will not be remembered as a great UC president. Actually, he won’t be remembered...
...conduct a survey of Harvard undergraduates, I think you would find that a large number, mostly women but men too, spend more time thinking about weight than they’d like,” Flood said. An interdisciplinary course about obesity may be in the spirit of the Core Curriculum that currently guides general education at the College, Shapin said—but that would require a lot of administrative work, as it would draw from different departments. “With a will and the right framework, it could come to exist,” Shapin said...