Word: curriculum
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...Elementary School in Chicago's posh North Shore suburb of Kenilworth (pop. 2,980). According to HEW, Sears was required to fill out a detailed Title IX questionnaire explaining how it had eliminated sex discrimination in its hiring policy, in facilities for its 575 pupils and in its curriculum. The penalty for noncompliance: an end to HEW aid for the school...
...million budget by trimming faculty slightly and raising tuition; but drive to increase $272 million endowment lags. Salary modest (low $40,000 range) and perks limited to gray stone house-but high-visibility job with potential for future Washington employment. One past president, Edward Levi, became U.S. Attorney General. Curriculum vitae to University of Chicago...
Edward A. Sweeney, assistant dean for curriculum at the Harvard Dental School and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Fluoridation, also notes that the Yiamouyiannis study was wholly unscientific and did not account for other carcinogenic agents common to industrialized areas...
...main industry?with a taxpaying base of prospering middle-class professionals, was in an innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short, West in many ways came to resemble a college more than a high school...
Almost half of all students leave school at age 16, after studying as many as a dozen subjects, including a foreign language. Meanwhile, grammar school students continue a rigorous university-oriented curriculum, including English, French, math and science. The elite private schools, even more demanding, routinely push students through 13 subjects...