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...admissions office to admit students whose credentials coming out of high school are not quite up to snuff. Because Harvard considers taking a year off to be beneficial, it follows that these 20 students, having spent a year studying or traveling, will as a result have somewhat more impressive curricula vitae when they enter school than otherwise...
Gross told the Faculty there will be a series of symposia in November during which professors from Harvard and its peer institutions will discuss the history and theories behind the Core curriculum and explore the different types of curricula that exist at other schools...
...based Islamic curriculum designed by Turkey's Department of Religion. In Germany, however, public schools provide religious instruction in accordance with the country's "religious communities." That once meant Catholic or Protestant, but most German school districts have introduced Islamic studies as well. In Berlin, parents can choose from curricula offered by several recognized religious communities. Result: 10 schools with Alevi classes and 20 for Sunnis. "The older generation get really choked up when they see these Alevi culture centers popping up all over the place, and the school thing is big news back in Turkey," says Iraz Karan...
...says she gives the volunteers a planned curriculum to use with the elementary school students during the first 10 weeks of the program and then lets the volunteers create their own curricula for the last six weeks...
Many who pushed the University to adopt ethnic studies curricula claimed that Summers’ apparent reluctance to do so indicated a diminished commitment to “diversity” at Harvard. The many possible arguments against establishing ethnic studies departments, on both practical and ideological grounds, have been largely ignored in favor of racially-tinged emotional appeals and protests. A performance by the mock a cappella group “The Callblacks” even implied Summers was racist. Nevertheless, this dispute cannot realistically be seen as a racial or ethnic problem; the administration under Summers has steadfastly...