Word: curricular
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Large public universities, for instance, are suddenly raising or establishing cutoff scores and grades for admission. That practice has ing been considered too rigid, and hence unfair. In an even blunter attempt to spur high schools to action, some systems, like California's are adopting specific curricular requirements. They're refusing to consider anyone without a set number of years in English, math, and so forth. Others are considering shifting their admissions emphasis to Achievement Tests, rather than SATs, and that, too, is adding to the momentum of attempted curriculum manipulation...
About the same time this sorry show was going on within the Ivy walls, members of the incoming. Class of '86 were completing and returning their first batch of forms high schools around the globe. One statistic from a question asking students which extra-curriculars they expect to tackle this fall seems ironic: 417-or 25 percent--of the roughly 1620 accepting freshman said they expected student government to be either their first or second extra-curricular activity. Surprisingly, however, this figure is consistent with previous years...
Some educators familiar with Paideia suggest that Adler has neglected one crucial question: Who will teach the teachers? Phil Keisling, an editor of the Washington Monthly, believes that "the legions of incompetent teachers is an even more distressing problem than the laxity of curricular standards." Adler acknowledges that further reforms will be necessary to retrain teachers, and he urges that teachers should receive a solid liberal arts education and "the hell with courses in pedagogy and educational philosophy...
...report also drew criticism from Harvard's associate dean, Charles R. Nelson '60. In a memo to the faculty. Nelson charged that law school is suffering from faculty polarization and urged that the faculty resolve this split before it considers curricular change...
...Radcliffe to be doing, says Phillipa Bovet, associate dean of Radcliffe. President Horner speaks of using "the carrot," rather than the stick in working for more women's studies. She notes for example, that Radcliffe requires Harvard faculty members who apply for a Mellon Fellowship to present evidence of curricular innovation toward more women's studies in their courses. But Radcliffe has not vocally called for a women's studies concentration, not has it encouraged Radcliffe students who have applied for special concentrations in women's studies, none of which has ever been granted. Horner attributes the widely perceived silence...