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...system of charter schools was authorizedunder the state's 1993 Education Reform Act.Schools are approved according to the followingcriteria: program quality, admissions policies,budget, curricula development and community need...
Theoretically, the existing departments could well absorb additional classes on ethnic issues without the creation of cantonize the issue and relieve the pressure on current departments to broaden their curricula...
...Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would be two other deans. The Dean of the College would have responsibility for nonacademic issues such as residential policy, student discipline and extracurricular activities. The Dean for Undergraduate Education would be responsible for the academic side of undergraduate life, curricula and departmental programs...
Minority activists opposed to assimilation have favored unintegrated ethnic studies separate from traditional curricula. Under a mantle of faux-multiculturalism, they advocate curricula dealing with their ethnic and cultural heritages, bolstering their ethnic pride and providing ethnic role models. Sometimes termed "particularistic multiculturalism," these advocates believe "that no common culture is possible or desirable...
True, but some students find the difference goes beyond mere content and point to the way in which Core course syllabi dress their curricula. "The Core is definitely worked up through the syllabus," said Cyrus C. Mody...