Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the next 70 years, the Summer School expanded its curriculum beyond the originally narrow focus and rapidly increased its enrollment...
Buck adds that when Harvard undergraduates had to pay to take a fifth or sixth course, many students took classes for degree during the summer. During that time courses remained in the curriculum regardless of student interest...
Radcliffe really has neither students nor faculty. Since ceding control of undergraduate life to Harvard in 1977, Radcliffe has increasingly shifted its focus away from the traditional collegiate concerns of curriculum, faculty affairs and student life. It has played virtually no role in decisions affecting the women's community at Harvard, focusing instead on the development of programs and fellowships for postgraduate research...
...Teaching an interdisciplinary core curriculum that would include English, fine arts, foreign languages, history, literature, math, science and social studies. The emphasis would be on critical thinking -- making connections between ideas -- rather than rote learning. To promote positive values and encourage good citizenship, the curriculum would include health instruction and community-service activities...
...lessons learned at school can easily be undermined by today's popular culture. The messages that blare from stereos, TVs and movie screens amount to a second education for the young. And much more money goes into the development of this after-school curriculum than goes into education. Rock * stars earn millions, but a high-school teacher is lucky to get $30,000 a year...