Word: curriculum
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Help for Dropouts. The system is so flexible that needy students can hold part-time jobs all year, attend school part time and still meet graduation requirements. The curriculum developed for the four-quarter plan offers 710 courses, most of which can be taken out of any established sequence. Students now can choose among 48 English courses of one-quarter length, where before there were only five year-long courses...
Seven-Ton Solution. Atlanta's plan was painstakingly evolved over a three-year period by teachers, principals and administrators. When the principals' committee met for six weeks last summer to develop the complex new schedules and curriculum guide, it used up more than seven tons of paper. So many factors were involved in scheduling new classes and redistributing teaching and classroom assignments that the Atlanta School System had to develop its own computer program. Says John Martin, a former assistant superintendent who directed the curriculum changeover: "The computer is as essential to our system...
Starting this Fall the students will take a prescribed curriculum consisting of four core courses. The courses are being designed by teams of Harvard Faculty and will cover the areas of analytical methods, economic theory, statistical methods, and political analysis...
...program's purpose is to educate students to be "better equipped to carry on the tasks of modern government," according to Don K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School. The curriculum is designed to give students an ability to analyze practical problems in public affairs as well as an understanding of the political environment in which they will work...
...stop pumping money into it, while the more earthbound among us continue to complain that the money should be spent elsewhere. (They forget the quite fundamental point that, like smalltown high schools that spend all the money they pick up during booster drives on athletic facilities instead of curriculum reform, America will always turn to diversionary money drains rather than concentrate on essential problems...