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After five years of professors laboring to improve undergraduate education through curricular changes, they are noticing an unintended consequence: students taking fewer electives...
...beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study away from more traditional, theoretical studies in public health toward practical, current case...
...proficiency is clearly within the range of all students. Those who excel in math are not necessarily those with the greatest raw intelligence, but those with a strong background who have been encouraged to practice their skills. Rather than abandon children to calculator computations in their early years, our curricular standards for math, from kindergarten to high school, should perhaps be modeled after the more rigorous math lessons in Asian and Eastern European countries. American cultural attitudes toward math have paralyzed our education prospects: Times tables are relegated to the past, students languish in an academic environment sorely lacking...
...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...