Word: curriculum
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...addition, the department hopes to have the new class added to the Core Curriculum. According to Hankins, History 10 never received a favorable response from the Committee on the Core...
...Ideally we would have liked having History 10 in the Core Curriculum," Hankins said. "Many departments have their intro courses in the Core, allowing freshmen to explore their disciplines...[Such courses] act as recruiting for the department...
Building on those innovations, Bush has been pushing what he calls "the most profound goal I have set as Governor: teaching every child in Texas to read by the third grade." The initiative includes a back-to-basics reading curriculum, a new set of diagnostic tools to identify problem readers in the earliest grades, programs for teacher training, "school-within-a-school" reading academies and after-school programs. So far, however, it has been underfunded. In 1997 and 1998 it received a total of only $32 million from the state, enough to help just a small fraction of Texas...
...boast that he has increased state education spending by $4.7 billion, or 31% (and he exaggerates the figure, a very unconservative thing to do). It's all part of navigating a tricky course down the right side of the political center. In 1997, when he pushed through new curriculum standards, he angered both the right and the left: first rejecting the initial effort as being too full of "mushy" liberal pedagogy, then rejecting the arguments of the religious right that the revised standards weren't tough enough. "I met with him in June 1997, when he was under heavy criticism...
...will be an effort to get minorities into the health care profession and [to] get women into more leadership positions," Shore said. "The Center will also emphasize women's health in the medical school curriculum and make a concerted effort to look where women's certed effort to look where women's health isincluded and where it is falling short...