Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rationale for the faculty decision is much deeper. Student performance on the National Boards, tests that are supposed to assess achievement in the basic sciences, has dropped from what was uniformly top status for Harvard before the advent of the core...
However, Harvard academics were concerned about more than prestige as measured by the National Boards. The basic sciences departments had seen their courses wrested from their control when the core was implemented, and last Thursday they regained control...
...Bernard D. Davis, Jackson Professor of Bacterial Physiology, wrote in a September issue of Science magazine that the core curriculum shortchanged "the student with intellect...
...said that under the program, instructors will continually repeat material, in an effort to make the students learn. Under the core curriculum, he said, students were taught a fact only once...
...Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, pioneered the core curriculum and warned in September that with a return to departmental teaching, "Medical School will become four years stuffed full of didactic exercises...