Word: coring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dissatisfied with the high school preparation of some Harvard students, professors are being forced to reconsider the proper role of the Core Curriculum and the basic function of higher education...
...years after Harvard's Core Curriculum was touted as the new model for undergraduate education, Harvard's administrators are taking a step back--and considering whether the secondary school preparation its undergraduates have received is compatible with the Core's "modes of learning" approach...
Already, the Core Committee has commissioned studies of the academic background of Harvard undergraduates in science and history--the two areas that have received the most faculty complaints...
According to one Core Committee study, 100 percent of the Class of '93 had taken high school math, but only 67 percent of students had studied European history and 56 percent had taken computer science in high school...
...Harvard is not well-suited to help students without a solid grounding in history and science, since the Core Curriculum is designed to teach undergraduates modes of analysis rather than basic facts and figures...