Word: core
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...another Ronald Reagan. That President went to Washington declaring that government was the problem and vowing to do away with whole agencies. Bush pointedly never called for eliminating traditional conservative targets like the Department of Education. "Those efforts typically aren't successful, and they weren't at the core of animating this President's view of conservatism," Bolten said. Instead, Bush's "compassionate conservative" philosophy called for more limited but still robust government, including creating an office for faith-based initiatives and backing the No Child Left Behind...
...That vote will be followed by debate on the Committee on General Education’s report, which called for drastically reworking the undergraduate curriculum by eliminating the Core and replacing it with a combination of broad distribution requirements and optional “foundational courses...
...close up, and not at a distance. The most consistent-and most accurate-criticism of a Harvard education today is that student-faculty contact is much too limited. Our current system of concentrations decants too many students, much too early, into too few concentrations that are too large. Our Core Program funnels too many students into too few courses that are on the whole too big. To be sure, large concentrations and big courses can be of outstanding quality-that is presumably one reason for their popularity; but in both concentrations and our current Core, our academic culture...
That vote will be followed by debate on the Report of the Committee on General Education, which called for drastically reworking the undergraduate curriculum by eliminating the Core and replacing it with a combination of broad distribution requirements and optional “foundational courses...
Some professors have suggested “instant implementation” for the new distribution requirements, meaning that students starting with the Class of 2007 would have the choice between completing the requirements of the Core or fulfilling a simpler distribution system. But the Faculty has yet to discuss that proposal in great depth...