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After the Task Force on General Education released its final report earlier this year, we were optimistic about the creation of a vibrant, flexible, and student-friendly general education system that would not merely be the Core version 2.0. Yet the proposed legislation to implement the new system has largely dashed our hopes. By leaving out critical details, the draft legislation has passed the buck to a new committee, the decisions of which could very well leave students with another lackluster and dispiriting general education system.One of the most prominent—and in our view the most important?...
...According to Fitzsimmons, this shift may be accounted for by the recent creation of Harvard’s School of Engineering. He added that changes in curriculum, including the pending curricular review, could bolster the College’s appeal in the coming years...
...instruction,” that the two should be consistent and mutually reinforcing. This was as much a practical position as a philosophical one, deriving from both Dewey’s work as a scholar and from his experience as a teacher. He believed deeply in the social creation and function of knowledge, but he also believed something more pedestrian and empirical, that human beings simply learn best when they learn together...
...more medicated and more restricted than ever-post-Columbine. I want to look at American teens versus teens in history and teens in other countries around the world. Given those benchmarks, teen turmoil is still an enormous and costly problem in the U.S., and it's entirely unnecessary-a creation of a culture that infantilizes teens unnecessarily and completely isolates them from adults. Past puberty, teens are no longer children; rather than monitoring and medicating them, we need to give them meaningful incentives and opportunities to join the adult world...
...first U.S. store in 2003 and has been invading mall spots. Inside each store, Japanese women in uniforms push down on metal levers to plop rich, creamy custard mixed with whipped cream into oversize profiterole shells. Like so much of Japanese culture, Beard Papa's has taken our creation and refracted it through the mythological wholesomeness of America in the 1950s--which is just what you want fast-food dessert to taste like...