Word: curricular
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...among all teachers, acknowledging that a student’s performance depends on a number of factors—from previous teachers to educators outside his primary classroom. Other schools will vary their distribution of the bonus slightly, giving more money to teachers who are in charge of extra-curricular activities and less money to classroom aides.Klein’s plan represents a marked departure from traditional models of merit pay, which reward individual teachers for increased achievement. Teachers’ unions have historically criticized and opposed such schemes for many reasons, including the competition it provokes among teachers...
...former was responsible for “the academic progress of individual students toward their degrees, as well as for non-curricular aspects of their educational growth and development,” according to a 1994 report on the structure of the College by former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, a computer science professor...
...will create even more confusion for students and their academic advisers, who are mostly in the dark about the process. The faculty’s own inability to articulate the new program does not help (it is disheartening to see administrators waffling on standard questions of academic eligibility and curricular options). Gen Ed has simply never been fully explained to students, especially those in the class of 2012, whom it will affect most...
Looking back on Harvard after graduation, Khazei said that while he values his education and extra-curricular activities, he primarily remembers Harvard for his friendships...
...make up for the lack of a History category, the curricular review voted to require students to take one Gen Ed course that is engaged “substantially with the study of the past...