Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Core office was off-about 1000 copies off--to in production of how many copies of his core syllabus book it would well...
Representatives cited renovations, sexual harassment, and the Core Curriculum as issues they wanted to see addressed by the council this year. Several representatives said a recently publicized harassment case against a professor in the Government Department will lend urgency to that issue...
Continued renovations of the Houses and the effect on students will also be an issue, said Brian R. Melendez '86 Kira R. Diaz '86, a Mather House representative who was on the Academics Committee last year, said that the committee report on the Core would continue to be evaluated "when we're not so hurried...
...excellence has once again become part of the agenda in hundreds of school districts across the country. Statistics only sketch out the dimensions of the turnaround. Over the past three years, 53% of the 16,000 school districts nationwide have increased the number of credits they require in such core subjects as English, science and math; 38% more will upgrade their standards by 1985. During this same period, 69% of school systems have launched efforts to increase daily attendance. No fewer than 20 states have passed tougher certification laws, with the goal of making sure that a teacher has mastered...
Another approach to higher standards favored by Alvarado and other reformers is the establishment within a district of a so-called magnet school, featuring specialized programs in the sciences, arts or humanities along with a core curriculum. Its purpose: to achieve integration by creating an inner-city school with an irresistible claim to academic excellence. Waller High School in Chicago, once a mere holding pen, was transformed by District Superintendent Margaret Harrigan into Lincoln Park High. It has a school of science with a college-level course in biochemistry, a school of languages that offers French, German, Italian and Spanish...