Word: curriculum
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THERE ARE, OF course, new twists to old plots in the new tome. Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson, who in previous years had strayed from the evil cave of sociobiology into the abyss of the Core Curriculum, will this year offer a graduate level course in that controversial field...
...school, housed in its own building on the Charles River since 1978, now grants three degrees: a mid-career Master of Public Administration (MPA), a Master of Public Policy, a two-year MPA, and a Ph.D. Students study under a core curriculum that emphasizes methodology, quantitative reasoning, public management, and political organizational analysis...
...reorganization and modernization of the architecture program, begun before the GSD was founded and culminating in Gropius's not entirely successful "Bauhausization" of the curriculum, provided the model for teaching architecture in the post-war period. Even if one studied architecture somewhere other than Harvard, one still learned the principles Harvard taught, the way Harvard taught them...
...school, housed in its own building on the Charles River since 1978, now grants three degrees: a mid-career Master of Public Administration (MPA), a Master of Public Policy, a two-year MPA, and a Ph.D. Students study under a core curriculum that emphasizes methodology, quantitative reasoning, public management, and political organizational analysis...
Bennett's antidote is a curriculum that encourages children to solve problems, organize information and think critically. He wants pupils to learn reading through greater exposure to engaging narratives like fairy tales, stories and biographies, instead of fill-in-the-blanks "skill sheets" and workbooks. In arithmetic, he presses for an emphasis on problem solving rather than mechanical computation. Instead of a curriculum stuffed with what he terms "ersatz social science," he argues that schools should return to conventional history, geography and civics. He also backs the idea of lengthening the school calendar, perhaps to year-round...