Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest hit was Peking University, where the entire class of 811 students has been ordered to spend its first year not on the spacious city campus but at a spartan military academy 1,260 miles south of Beijing, where the curriculum will be heavily weighted in favor of discipline and party ideology. Said an angry teacher: "The government probably thinks it can change the minds of young people in this manner so that they will avoid being troublemakers in the future." Some face a particularly grueling ideological brush-up. The State Education Commission has ruled that all graduates since...
...offers several other sessions including the Seminar for Superintendents, Computer Technology in the Special Needs Curriculum, Institute on Thinking: Critical and Creative, the Institute on Writing, Reading and Civic Education, the Management Development Program and the newly-created Institute on Multicultural Education...
...looking through a list of next year's Core Curriculum courses yesterday. I got depressed...
...among the many dangers of the Core curriculum--brain-numbing as it is in too many ways--is that it is in many ways a two-semester "Books" course. One half is "Great Books." The second half is "Other Books." Or "non-Great Books...
...late 20s, still single, he decided to attend Harvard Business School. The curriculum appealed to him far more than Cambridge's liberal atmosphere. Watergate was nearing its climax, and Bush pere was in a defensive crouch as Republican national chairman. The son sympathized from afar, then decided to take his M.B.A. back to Midland, to learn the oil business as a "landman," one who researches mineral and land records...