Word: curriculum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...health policy at the Kennedy School, knows first-hand that special concentrations can have a tremendous impact on a student's life. Her son, Jared Curhan '93, created a special concentration on negotiation and decision-making and went on to found the program for Young Negotiators, a 10-week curriculum that teaches high school teachers how to foster negotiation skills in the classroom...
...Disney World. From the beginning it saw Celebration as a noble social experiment, a model community for the next century. Disney contacted some of the world's leading architects to design the town. Educational experts planned a progressive school system that would largely do away with a formal curriculum and assessment of student performance through grades. All houses would be within a five minute walk of downtown, and the perfectly paved streets would be lined with trees...
...Wheeler is working on a curriculum package for middle schoolers to help instill respect for marine life. When feeling discouraged, he remembers the first day on his voyage, when he had 40 miles to paddle through rough seas before nightfall. "I felt the ocean was testing my sincerity." Having passed that trial, Wheeler can't let the ocean down...
...combat the tendency towards ethnic isolation instead of integration, Gates called for a rigorous multicultural curriculum in the public school system. "America has been multicultural from the get-go," he said...
...lack of American emphasis in the curriculum would be serious in any university, but it is particularly dangerous at Harvard and similar institutions that serve as training grounds for the American elite. A disaffected elite, unaware of its nation's history or, even worse, aware of only those parts of its history that cast their homeland in an unfavorable light, will be incapable of engaging in any sacrificial efforts on its nation's behalf. Someone who doesn't believe in their country is incapable of acting for that country, for why act for a nation that seems to stand...