Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that the function of arts instruction in a liberal arts curriculum a not simply to supplement and support the academic disciplines. It is to introduce students to forms of learning and communication which have their own power, validity, and application, and which offer alternatives to the symbolic modes of words and figures and to the ways of knowing and feeling that they can convey...
...longtime head of the Dance Office, Claire S. Mallardi, says she gave up years ago "wasting time" trying to get dance courses into the Harvard curriculum, even though "every other Ivy League college to my knowledge. . . has gone in one form or another into some form of credit for dance...
...voted down a friend who ran on a the most brilliant of any Council platform yet conceived: "Vote for me or I'll throw away your grandparents." Incidentally, the brutal defeat forced him to run a single-issue campaign this year focusing on the unpleasant vagaries of the Core Curriculum.) But at least some of that genius is bound to slip through, and the results could breed a whole new respect for political sophistication...
...once more. Parents are taking a hard look at the first year of school and demanding a greater stress on learning fundamentals. More are sending their children to the preschool programs that launch four-year-olds armed with the alphabet. Schools are responding by fortifying the play-oriented kindergarten curriculum with weighty matters like arithmetic and reading. "Parents now want their children to bring home a stack of papers," says Marilyn Arwood, principal of Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va. "They want hard proof that the child has learned something...
Other experts complain that the first-grade curriculum has already been pushed down into kindergarten, where pencils and workbooks now claim ever more space beside crayons and building blocks. Says Principal Arwood: "There are some children who are ready for paper-and-pencil activities in kindergarten. There are many who are not. We have a lot of social problems with kids who aren't up to those things." Bertha Campbell, head of the bureau of child development at the New York State department of education, says that demanding kindergartens create too much stress for the youngsters and can have...