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...programs complement the students’ curricula while allowing them to immerse themselves in local culture, says Lue, who is also a senior lecturer on molecular and cellular biology...
...make changes," says Michael Flanagan, Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. For three months last fall a task force of state education officials, school superintendents, college deans and a Ford Motor Company executive pored over scholarly research on curriculum reform, borrowed ideas from private schools with strong college preparatory curricula and International Baccalaureate programs that infuse instruction with a global perspective. The panel also studied the education policies in countries such as Singapore, whose students routinely ace international proficiency exams. And the group consulted education chiefs from states that were early adopters of tougher standards, including Indiana, Oregon and Arkansas...
...wound up drawing just under 60 undergraduates. She added though that her department was generally supportive of her proposal for the course, which examines education since the colonial era from all angles, including within families and religious institutions. Other universities are starting to expand offerings on education in their curricula, according to Peterson. “We are just on the cusp of treating education as a significant topic at colleges and universities because something that includes 50 million students, Hundreds of thousands of employees, and billions and billions of dollars, is too important to be left off the academic...
...term “sexual stimulation” is also problematic. “If you look into someone’s eyes and you have a [physical] response, apparently you’ve just become non-abstinent,” Smith said. All panelists agreed that abstinence-only curricula contain scientifically inaccurate data. Groups commonly distribute distorted statistics to promote abstinence, Kay said. One such federally funded abstinence-only sexual education program teaches that condoms fail 14 percent of the time, contrasted to the three percent accepted by the wider medical community and cited by medical journals, according...
From introducing concentrations and electives into college curricula to competing in the first intercollegiate athletic competition, Harvard has a proud tradition of being an innovative forerunner in higher education. It added a significant mark on that timeline yesterday when it announced that it will abandon early admissions to the College.Like many other schools, Harvard has long had an early admissions system whereby students who applied by November were informed of a decision by mid-December. Harvard’s system is non-binding, meaning early admits are free to apply to other schools and inform Harvard of their decision...