Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that just such a question was being raised, however, brought bellows of protest from academic conservatives like Education Secretary William Bennett. A devout classicist, he accused Stanford's revisionists of "academic intimidation," claiming that a "very vocal minority is attempting to overpower a less vocal majority." Dismantling the core curriculum, he warned, amounted to "trashing Plato and Shakespeare...
...confirmed revisionists, such remarks seem like more of the moss-crusted obstructionism they feel has slowed scholarly progress for centuries. They point to the huffy removal of Sir Thomas More from Oxford by his father in the 15th century because the curriculum had added the newly "with it" subject of Greek. They like to recall the warning of Princeton President James McCosh in 1884 that removing Latin and Greek requirements would leave "the whole ancient world . . . unknown even to our educated...
...fellows will also "participate in courses, curriculum development, collaborative research, study groups, case-writing workshops, and clinical programs," the statement said...
According to Shih, the AAA-sponsored workshop will concentrate one three areas: benefits of courses that address ethnic American issues, integration of ethnic topics into a broader historical context for elementary and high school textbooks, and the structure of an Ethnic American Studies college curriculum...
...hangover. This is no vacation. We're giving you nothing. You're going to work for it." Rows of bleary-eyed, mostly young faces nod grudgingly. Most have forked out $3,000 in tuition fees for practical reasons -- they want better jobs and more money -- and they prefer what Curriculum Director George Beaulieu promises them the next day: "M-O-N-E-Y. Big trucks, big bucks...