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...rest of the world was reforming itself” helped convince a number of English professors that it was time to review their own requirements, New says.Music department chair Anne C. Shreffler says that the curricular review helped professors think more creatively about their own departments’ curricula.“As you’re thinking about Gen Ed, you don’t want to think about it in isolation,” she says. “You want to think about the whole experience that students have, and obviously the concentration is a huge part...
...clauses, ensuring that collaborations end every few years. In the world of research, in short, there exist devices for reshuffling faculty. The time has come to bring this same philosophy to the world of teaching. Obviously, there has to be a certain amount of continuity in our courses and curricula. But not every facet of the curriculum has to be imagined as permanent. For example, why not create a rolling series of secondary fields each with built-in sunset clauses, lasting no more than three or four years? These fields could be organized around a set of innovative, one-time...
...Heyman added that she thought Young handled the challenge well, saying that although Newton does have standardized curricula, it has not become “a school system that just [teaches] on the textbook...
...forms of birth control. The science, then, is clear. Abstinence-only education is useless at best and counterproductive at worst. What’s more, abstinence-only programs tend to spread misinformation and sexist stereotypes. According to a report prepared by the House Committee on Government Reform, abstinence-only curricula have claimed that HIV can be spread through tears, that abortion causes sterility, and that condoms fail to stop HIV transmission in 31 percent of cases. None of these claims, of course, is true. The report goes on to mention multiple instances of sexist content in abstinence-only programs, including...
...Modern college curricula have no regard for the virtues. The wisdom offered in classrooms, if not, as in the admittedly “applied” sciences, purely instrumental, is then essentially a curiosity, since it has no relationship to the good life. And, as such, graduates will be left uninstructed as to how they ought to use, or how they ought to act with, the knowledge they have gained and the natural intelligence they have sharpened over the last four years...