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...Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of the Med School, proposed the program last spring in response to what he--and other educators--have cited as a need for revamping medical curricula to deal with the recent explosion in medical-related information resulting from new discoveries and technology...
With the cooperation of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, a computer industry association, firms across the state are helping universities develop job-related computer curricula...
About 120 observers, mostly Ed School students, attended nine workshops on topics ranging from ways to include the arms race in high-school curricula to strategies for influencing Harvard to divest itself of stock in companies that manufacture nuclear weapons...
...Holley, a student at the Ed School, drew the day's largest crowd at his workshop on high-school curricula. Drawing on his experience as a teacher in a small alternative school in Maline, Holley urged his audience of about 40 to explore new ways of teaching information about nuclear arms...
...extreme, Adler's The Paideia Proposal offers an impassioned but simplistic reminder of What Education Is For, Proposing that all high school curricula be revamped into a three-column, 12-year approach, Adler advocates attentive teaching of "acquisition of organized knowledge" (history, languages, science, taught by rote); "development of intellectual skills" (reading, speaking, problem-solving, taught by drill); and "enlarged understanding of ideas and values" (works of art and aesthetic appreciation, taught by Socratic discussion...