Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement, Wolfson proposed that religious schools whose religious instruction permeates much of the curriculum, and who have trouble finding racial minorities because of the nature of the curriculum, could avoid review by showing good faith. Such gestures would include the hiring of minority teachers to teach secular parts of the curriculum, he added...
...February eased into March, with all the niceties that make a month worth living, if not remembering. The snow blackened and turned to crumbs. The Faculty got ready to make itself famous with this beast called a Core Curriculum, and smiled as The Times and half the other newspapers in the country dropped them onto the front page--not the lead story, to be sure, but still down there on the front page, set in a nice conservative block of type...
...will also suggest that advanced standing students who elect to take a fourth year be required to fulfill all the Core Curriculum requirements. The Standing Committee on the Core is studying how to reduce Core requirements for students who are eligible for degrees in less than four years...
...satisfy the local school district, this family has accepted a school "administrator" for their home curriculum, Sheffield's district psychologist Paul Shafiroff, who is responsible for evaluating the children's progress. The boys, he says, "possess skills generally equivalent to their grade level." Shafiroff notes: "More parents would like to do this if they could get the support of the schools...
That woman and her son are hardly the paranoid exceptions. Parents in suburban and middle-class areas across the country have been petitioning their local school boards to institute SAT prep courses as part of the normal high school curriculum. Unlike inner-city areas, where learning itself is a problem, these students allegedly receive an excellent education. In Greenwich, Conn, a wealthy New York suburb, almost half the town's tax revenue goes to schools; indeed, realtors use the superiority of the Greenwich system as a main selling point. Yet the average SAT score at Greenwich High School continues...