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...dates of the first stage of the residency were set for September 26 to October 1, but little else was set in stone. The press release announced a determination to “cooperate on the development of new interdisciplinary curricula in the arts, literature, history, and music of the Silk Road regions.” Such a program was markedly more open-ended and potentially all-encompassing than previous artistic residencies, such as that of the Ying String Quartet, which has held residency at Harvard since...
...that the statement amounts to a back-door inclusion of creationism in the science curriculum. Their stance is commendable, but it may not be enough to reverse the medieval trend of false science across the country; the Bush Administration now supports including both intelligent design and evolution in science curricula...
...Pennsylvania trial over the place of evolution in school curricula has been called "Scopes II," after the infamous "Monkey Trial" of 1925 - and 80 years after a Tennessee teacher was indicted for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution, the issue is hotter than ever. New challenges to the teaching of evolution have sprung up all over the country, but the focus this week is on the U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, PA, where 11 parents from the town of Dover have sued the local school board over its mandate that students hear a statement insisting that evolution is a theory...
Finally, the report called on the engineering community to improve general public understanding of the science, particularly through the development of pre-college curricula...
While many faculty members had hoped to see examples of well thought-out curricula for a Harvard College Course, the report only suggested broad areas of study in which courses could be offered...