Word: curriculum
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Since the 1970s, when Harvard did away with the General Education requirements and replaced them with a Core curriculum, there has been an ongoing debate about both the quality and the quantity of required science and math education...
Since the Core replaced the General Education breadth requirements in the 1970s under then dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, the curriculum has come under fire for giving insufficient attention to math and the natural sciences...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) set up a Core Review Committee (CRC) to examine the curriculum and suggest how it might be improved. Composed of six professors and two students, the CRC produced a working paper that was released in March of that year and included significant discussion of Core science requirements...
...oppose the idea that their hard-earned money is producing stagnant student test scores-scores which place American students far below the rest of the world in basic educational skills. Teachers are crucial to the improvement of American schools, and they need to be consulted in the implementation of curriculum which will return America to the top. But first, they need to accept change. The NEA must stop its politicking and decide to put America's future first...
That forced Kearns to figure out how to make Newcomb Central a special place, a school no one would want to shutter. Realizing she was in the middle of "the biggest classroom in the whole world," she decided to give her curriculum an environmental focus, emphasizing Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students...