Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular should be encouraged. The earlier the intervention, the greater the chance of success. All youngsters could also benefit from improved sex-education programs that explore the emotional as well as the mechanical aspects of sex. Some schools have begun offering special courses in preventing violence. A ten-session curriculum, designed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the Massachusetts commissioner of public health, is being used in several high schools in Boston, Detroit and Denver. "We tell them anger is potentially constructive but they need to learn how to handle it," explains Prothrow-Stith. Students examine how fights begin and analyze...
When the Core Curriculum was first being implemented in the early 1980s, then-Dean of the Faculty Rosovsky called on Verba to ease the transistion, naming him associate dean for undergraduate education...
...both sides of the 'good Harvard-bad Harvard' coin. Most students find that friends, or extracurriculars, or being sociable, or living on their own constituted their best education. The flip side is inevitably Harvard's failure to educate--due to its large classes, distant faculty and ill-conceived Core curriculum...
...signs are all around us. Harvard's poor excuse for a Core curriculum leaves the undergraduate without any foundation of knowledge or intellectual skill to build upon. The large lectures, the distance between most senior faculty and students and the importance of graduate students in teaching courses means that any learning usually takes place through diffusion rather than symbiosis. And the generous graduation requirements of many departments means almost anyone can coast through Harvard without having to feel sweat on his brow...
...word summarizes the challenge and the promise of the year at Harvard it was pluralism. Diversity in the houses, diversity in College admissions, diversity in the faculty, diversity in the curriculum, diversity was everywhere--in a form. The task of the community of the University became bringing order out of the seeming disorder. The task was not easy. Mistakes were...