Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader in the assessment movement, Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI, uses an "ability-based" curriculum to foster such growth. Fields of study are de-emphasized; instead students are tested in eight cross-disciplinary areas such as communication, analysis, and aesthetic response...
Most faculties, however, continue to test students without consciously analyzing what abilities they seek to foster, Adelman said. Advocates of ability-based curriculum feel that these educators force students to learn facts that are not critical in a world of rapidly developing information technology...
This view is opposed by those who feel that the liberalized curriculum of the 60s and 70s has adversly affected higher education. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, for example, has suggested that all college students be required to read the "great books" of Western civilization. This "back-to-basics" version of assessment has found strong support among several state legislatures which have mandated basic-skills tests and specific curricular reforms in public universities. While Harvard is not subject to state mandated reforms, it is closely studying assessment projects at schools that...
...MORE abomination to the list that the 1980s have brought us. If beer funnels, neo-conservativism, and the core curriculum weren't bad enough, now there are child leashes...
...firmly believe that there should be some courses in the Core Curriculum that focus on American ethnic minorities," said committee member S. Allan Counter, who directs the Harvard Foundation, a University agency founded in 1981 to address the concerns of minorities. "Everyone should [receive some] education about the people we live with in this society...