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...average of just 16 minutes a day on science, and that's dwindling to zero in many schools. "Teachers have reported to us that their principals have walked into their classrooms and said, 'Stop teaching science,'" says Wheeler. Even teachers who are eager and equipped often face daunting curricular goals--U.S. science texts usually cover many more topics than international ones do. "Compared to the rest of the world, we're a mile wide and an inch deep," says Wheeler...
Harvard College Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68, a DEAS member, said the science and engineering professors produced the statements in hopes of working with the curricular review committees to revise the proposals—not to defeat the curricular review in a final Faculty vote...
Lewis, Abernathy, and Wofsy all said that concerns about Harvard’s advising program underlie many of the problems that the curricular review is trying to address...
They suggested that the curricular review should lay the foundations for a comprehensive and effective new advising program before trying to tackle other recommendations...
Kirby said he did not expect his resignation, effective June 30, to derail the curricular review—as some professors have said it might...