Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, in today's university, rarely does a lecturer's style, or his charisma, motivate students to enroll in his class. Especially at Harvard, with our rigid Core Curriculum and concentration requirements, students oftentimes enroll in courses out of sheer necessity. They actually choose to attend the lectures only to collect the material that will allow them to pass...
Home schooling, as it is currently practiced, is something of a misnomer. There are a wealth of options--many of them centered outside the home. You can buy a prepackaged curriculum or make it up as you go. Many families mix and match kitchen-table lessons with classes at other parents' houses, apprenticeships and even--where permitted--public school or college courses...
Despite the protests of creationists and their intellectual allies, and such efforts as the Kansas school board's vote last week to expunge evolution from the school curriculum, science has long taught that human beings are just another kind of animal, but most of the time this seems like a technicality. It's not just the obvious differences--language, civilization, technology--that set us apart. Even basic biology suggests that humanity has special status. Virtually every other type of animal comes in multiple varieties: dozens of species of monkeys, antelopes, whales and hawks walk, swim or fly the earth...
...Kansas Board of Education voted 6 to 4 to remove evolution, and the Big Bang theory as well, from the state's science curriculum. In so doing, the board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim, "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore." The new standards do not forbid the teaching of evolution, but the subject will no longer be included in statewide tests for evaluating students--a virtual guarantee, given the realities of education, that this central concept...
Dorothy followed her yellow brick road as it spiraled outward toward redemption and homecoming (to the true Kansas of our dreams and possibilities). The road of the newly adopted Kansas curriculum can only spiral inward toward restriction and ignorance...