Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evanston's EMH program prompted a short discursion of Michael's general philosophy of educational administration. "In education, it's excellence for all, in whatever they do," Michael says with quiet conviction. He rejects the concept of an honor school, although he believes strongly in "a very heavily tracked curriculum in all subject areas on the basis of 'ability groups...
...frowns upon many of the present "easy" solutions to problems. "Today we're in a hurry; we want to solve matters by geography--without regard to curriculum or anything else. The problems are really no more complex than they've always been. We just feel more deeply about them today...
...attended the Lycée Razi in Teheran; most of them have gone on to universities in France. The Lycée Francais in New York receives no subsidy from the French government, operates as a private elementary and high school-but it adheres to the official French curriculum, and 24 of its 50 teachers are furnished by the Foreign Ministry...
Boning for Bachots. Whether in London or São Paulo, a lycée education is a demanding, no-nonsense process. Greek, Latin and logic, mathematics and a firm grounding in scientific studies are standard elements in the curriculum. French literature is its very backbone. And wherever the lycée, its students will be working from the same textbooks, will bone up for the same exams at the same time of the year. The questions for the bachot, the dreaded baccalaureate examination that determines who shall-and who shall not-be eligible for university entrance, are formulated...
...participating parents). Eligibility is based strictly on need; fees run anywhere from 4? to 490? an hour. Standard equipment in California's Santa Monica centers includes three large turtles, one small goat, five chickens, a horned toad, and a real leather saddle for sawhorse riding. Explaining a curriculum that includes such subtle delights as the baking of gingerbread, Director Docia Zavitkovsky says, "It is our job to introduce the world to these children...