Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brookins said that while it's probably easier to get in to Harvard from Boston Latin School than from most high schools, not many others offer the same curriculum...
Best Friends started on a shoestring and a smile in a bedroom of Bennett's Chevy Chase, Maryland, home nine years ago, and now operates in 29 public schools nationwide. Beginning in sixth grade, the Friends curriculum pounds into girls--through one-on-one sessions with mentors, dance classes, outings to the theater and an awards lunch with speakers (General Powell in June)--that a happy life is more likely for those who put off sex. "Best Friends works because we have fun," says Bennett. "We glamourize abstinence as much as the culture glamourizes sex." Of the 600 Washington girls...
Skocpol said this could be a limiting change, but undergraduates disagreed, saying that it instead shifted the committee's focus to curriculum issues...
...bank to allow students to call Congress about financial aid was relevant. Our support of the recent conference on Ethnic Studies was relevant. Shuttle buses to the Yale game, and the Yale tailgate party, were relevant, or so the student turnout suggests. Our ongoing effort to examine the Core curriculum is relevant, as is our upcoming Concentration Fair. Our decision to support PBHA was relevant. Finally, our stand on Shell and Harvard's connections to the Nigerian military government was relevant, or so at least the Crimson apparently thinks...
...Curriculum changes call for classes to meet less frequently, professors to be more accessible on-line and more individualized research to take place, Horwitz said...