Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shut down 18 underused schools, imposed a citywide curriculum and instituted achievement tests for kindergarten through ninth grade. Those who failed were held back, including almost 10,000 kindergartners over five years. Green negotiated millions in corporate gifts to the school system. And he broke segregation patterns with busing, magnet schools and careful (some thought rigid) monitoring of racial balance. To halt white flight, he organized tours of a turned-around school for real estate agents. They were impressed. So are education observers, who now rate the system among the nation's best. Even his critics, who consider him arrogant...
...increased emphasis on history and criticism in our curriculum and the expanded Ph.D. programs in architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning...have contributed to the need to make these resources more accessible," McCue said...
Visiting artists at the ART are often incorporated into the Institute's ever-changing curriculum. When Richard Foreman comes to Cambridge this spring to direct The Fall of the House of Usher, a musical by composer Philip Glass which is based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror tale, he will also hold an intensive workshop on acting at the Institute, says registrar Barbara Akiba. And European director Andrei Serban has already taught a class on acting using bamboo poles during one visit...
Institute faculty and students say the Institute's curriculum is not rigidly structured but constantly adapts to the needs of the company...
...everyone praises the Institute program. Some students see the unstructured curriculum as a problem. "I don't think the instruction is very good," says one student, who asked not to be identified. And several Harvard undergraduates suggested that the new Institute was merely taking up more space in the Loeb Theatre, denying undergraduate drama rehearsal and production time at the Loeb...