Word: curriculum
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...only have departments received additional teachers, as a result, but so have other fields and programs--like the Core curriculum and Harvard's various research centers...
McElroy said he thinks this would be an excellent addition to the Core curriculum, as it was a very popular course at UCLA...
...support his ideal of a "true" American meritocracy, Lemann calls for a change to content-based college admissions exams. These tests would emphasize mastery of a nationally-established curriculum instead of "learning tricks to outwit multiple-choice aptitude exams." If he feels that this system would be less likely to discriminate against students in poorly run schools and less likely to be twisted by test preparation courses available to the rich, he is truly naive. The SATs are certainly not uncoachable, as ETS once claimed, but they are less dependent upon coaching than tests about subjects in history and chemistry...
...seems to me that the action this summer by the Kansas state board of education dropping evolution from the science curriculum, the ongoing battles about prayer in the schools--particularly in places like Alabama--and the struggles in many places including Massachusetts is a pretty clear sign that this is a big-time issue in American society at the beginning of the new century...
...Alessandro responds that the district still encourages teachers to adapt the standardized curriculum into individualized, innovative lessons...