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...killer was imbued with homophobia from an impressionable age. While the influences the young killer encountered weighed heavily on the crime, equally important were the teachings he did not encounter. Homosexuality is an issue that is notably absent from the “diversity is beautiful” curricula of elementary and middle schools. We are proud to say that the American educational system and our society at large have progressed to an extent that racial slurs are no longer tolerated in most schools. However, American educational attitudes toward homosexuality remain lamentably ambivalent. On the one hand, Lawrence King felt...
...past for a “test-oriented” and “autocratic” approach to school policy, Fowler-Finn—who had his superintendent contract renewed by a close committee vote in January—suggested a provision to encourage creativity in school curricula. “Our school system must take advantage of the creativity of teachers and principals,” he said. “There are going to be $5,000 grants available.” But committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 saw the proposal differently...
...aims, the program’s legacy will be a curriculum that integrates innovative teaching methods, and focuses on the twenty-first century world. Accomplishing such lofty goals requires a period during which such Gen Ed plan generalities can assume a concrete meaning: a period to develop the necessary curricula and to prepare the faculty to make such aspirations a reality. An overly hasty implementation process would undermine the new system before it has time to establish itself. Gen Ed requires a period of development and nurturing—prior to implementation—precisely in order to avoid...
...California at Berkeley. At both institutions, coalitions of students, lecturers, and activists ran Asian American studies with autonomy, overseeing all aspects of the program. from curriculum to faculty hiring, independently of broader university institutions. These populist origins of the Asian American studies movement meant that the guiding principle regarding curricula was that of “relevance”—of issues that addressed the needs and concerns of the represented communities at hand, thus providing a forum for group pride and preservation.The origins and execution of Asian American Studies movements have been the target of much criticism...
Other topics addressed included online ethics, the isolating effect of excessive social networking, and the potential for gaming to be integrated into high school curricula...