Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of German Maria M. Tatar, who teaches the course Literature and Arts A-18, "Fairy Tales, Children's Literature and the Culture of Childhood," dips into a bag of tricks during her lectures to keep students interested. Her captivating curriculum calls for bits of Snow White and a comprehensive deconstruction of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to engage students with toddler-sized attention spans. Tatar is a firm believer in her teaching methods. "You can see the exhilaration in the eyes of the students as they come to lecture," she boasts...
With a day left in the shopping period, and with the curriculum at the brink of collapse, the Core Committee calls an emergency meeting. As Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles presides, discussion deadlocks amidst conflicting interests and overlapping loyalties. Knowles tells his secretary to "get the president on the phone...
...Study Cards are due. Even as students file their study cards in their houses, President Neil L. Rudenstine and the Board of Overseers intercede to suspend the Core for a year. The college switches back to the preregistration system, leaving the University of Chicago with the most rigid core curriculum in the nation...
...staff's good intentions are outdated. Federal education reform is an idea whose time has gone. Wary of the colossal failures of federal programs such as curriculum-tied grants, goals 2000 and outcome-based education schemes, states are renovating their own educational apparatuses...
...dwelled here on my family and my values. But each family must identify its own values. Some will highlight competition, others cooperation; some will stress mastery of technology, others the cultivation of an art or craft or the achievement of athletic prowess; some will seek a curriculum that emphasizes facts and figures, others a curriculum that encourages youngsters to be creative or even iconoclastic...