Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the council plans to give particular attention to student interests by making extra-curricular activities available to the student body...
...faculty of the Graduate School of Education Monday unanimously approved the institutions of two new curricular programs geared towards training new high school teachers and retraining current ones. The programs are designed to alleviate the increasing nationwide shortage of secondary school math and science teachers and improve their quality...
...Wilson task force, the faculty committee which considered curricular changes explicitly rejected this traditional conception while usurping the title "core curriculum" for its proposal. It wanted a "mandatory core curriculum based not on some theoretical division or hierarchical ordering of knowledge, but rather on 'distinctive ways of thinking that are identifiable and important.'" On many separate occasions both Dean Rosovsky and Dean Verba have re-emphasized their view that a curriculum cannot be based on a core of knowledge. A Core curriculum in their view is to insure that each educated college graduate has a core of "skills" or "habits...
...succinctly: The Harvard "core" curriculum is no curriculum at all. As a neighboring liberal arts institution 1947 curricular reform report put it: "It is the function of a liberal college to require at least an intelligent consideration of a few of the fields of knowledge which the college, by the fact of its teaching them, has market as significant." Such marking requires that the Faculty define a hierarchy, establish educational priorities, make a judgement on what is fundamentally important for an educated American and what is secondary or important for the specialized scholar. The Harvard Faculty finds doing this...
During the program, which will take place February 21-23, the prospective freshmen will get a chance to attend classes, to meet various professors, University officials, and students, and to see what the extra-curricular activities are like, Jewett said. All 470 students accepted in mid-December were invited to participate...