Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...always tell a Harvard story when it appears in the media. They're the ones about the famed "Harvard mystique," the envied "Harvard old-boy network" and the "much-imitated Core Curriculum." But as the stories longingly leer at Harvard's financial prowess, or snidely sneer at its fall from the top of the academic mountain, you can't always tell much from them...
This spring, Section D asked her to send them a curriculum vitae to be included in the group's resume binder. And on graduation day, they tried unsuccessfully to have Betsy Spence awarded a diploma, with their version of a Betsy Spence-look-a-like ready to accept...
...Toni Fay, director of corporate community relations, "Our ^ research indicated that there was a lack of high-interest materials. We thought we could motivate students to read through a careful use of TIME." Ester Connelly, who manages the Time Education Program in Yardley, Pa., was charged with devising a curriculum outline and one-day training course that would enable volunteers to teach reading and vocabulary through use of the magazine's advertisements, headlines and captions, as well as its articles...
...Summer School curriculum places more emphasis on "the more practical, applied and worthy" in the summer than during the regular school year, explains Pihl. Economics, for example, is much more quantitative in the summer...