Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later, the outcome of that conservative swing in the pendulum will be reviewed as Harvard's celebrated Core Curriculum undergoes a faculty and administrative review. While not expected to call for broad revision or fundamental change, the assessment will represent Harvard's latest statement on what makes an "educated person...
...solution appeared in 1978 in a plan hoped to counteract the damaging laissez-faire legacy of the 1960s. A Harvard curriculum liberated by a decade of student unrest--following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...
Former Education Secretary William J. Bennett in 1986 tagged the program "Core lite," comparing the curriculum to its Gen Ed predecessor and assailing it for not being academically rigid...
Harvard administrators resist the notion of a Western Civilization core, or a curriculum designed to distribute education among departmental courses...
...opposite extreme, some liberal educators question the value of imposing a universal curriculum for students. It would be impossible to define a "single program of study that is good for everyone," says Dean of Brown College Sheila E. Blumstein, given the variation of student abilities and interests...