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...abstinence-only education had sex no later than those who did not. The number of sexual partners and use of contraception did not differ between the groups either. Another study, from Johns Hopkins, found that students who take virginity pledges—a key part of many abstinence-only curricula??were no less likely to have premarital sex than those who do not. More frighteningly, the Johns Hopkins study also found that students taking such pledges were significantly less likely to use condoms or other forms of birth control. The science, then, is clear. Abstinence-only education...
...Epstein rightly calls attention to the content and quality of these elite university’s curricula??especially in the humanities and the social sciences—but the critique extends beyond the evisceration of the liberal arts into politically tendentious disciplines, to a fundamental problem in the ideology of meritocracy...
...High school curricula??so forcefully imposed into conformity by the demands of college admissions offices—still claim to confer upon their pupils a basic body of knowledge and set of skills, those deemed most useful and conducive to success at university. But colleges—at least the elite “liberal arts” colleges like Harvard—recognize no such duty to ensure the content if not the quality of their programs. Employers value liberal-arts graduates, by and large, not for their knowledge but for their intellect—guaranteed...
...busing, and free sports as examples of how “much of what we’re doing with the money is really good.”Fowler-Finn has also addressed concerns of a test-oriented approach by including a budget sum for “innovative curricula?? in the 2008-2009 budget proposal, which was just approved unanimously by the school committee. “We’re trying to encourage principals to be creative, individualistic, doing things full of imagination, and looking for alternatives that excite students,” he said. Nancy...
...teaching by suggesting that college instruction alone is not a worthy career. Second, administrators insist, control of the curriculum should rest only with tenured professors, the most accomplished scholars in a given field. This should largely continue to be the case. But in many fields, lecturers teach longstanding curricula??such as in introductory mathematics—or deftly tweak them to fit their own needs—such as in expository writing. After all, Harvard already allows preceptors to serve as primary instructors in the foreign languages, mathematics, and expository writing. There exists no plausible defense...