Word: curriculum
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...volunteer at the Suffolk Country House of Corrections. Through the Harvard Prisoner Education Program, approximately 35 students drive in a van to a medium security prison to tutor inmates. One Harvard student is paired with one inmate, a relationship which ideally lasts throughout the stay of the inmate. The curriculum ranges from basic math to advanced calculus, depending on the skill level of the tutee...
...just to appease the ears of tutors. After months without contact with women, some tutees make inappropriate comments to female tutors. Some lack the motivation to progress through lessons or continually forget to complete assignments. Yet the structure of the Harvard tutoring program grants individual tutors autonomy over their curriculum and allows them to ask for a new tutee, if the situation becomes uncomfortable or ineffective. The two co-directors closely monitor all tutor-tutee relationships, ensuring the integrity of the program...
...protests in April 1996, it is that the confrontational activism of the late 1960s is no longer effective. Rather, the development of RES will be a prolonged and often frustrating process of negotiation with the Faculty and administration. For the next few years, changes in Faculty hiring and the curriculum will be incremental and problematic at best. Students will have to demonstrate solidarity and consistent strong support for race and ethnic studies as a constant reminder to the administration that we are neither apathetic nor satisfied with the status quo. But if we're up to the challenge, we stand...
...silences, empty spaces in people's conciousnesses, things that aren't addressed in daily student life," said Gorke. "We hope to create spaces, places, forums, means for people to engage with things that aren't covered in the Core Curriculum...
...however, the black children who desperately need to know their history so that they might find heroes to inspire them, and the white children who desperately need a full understanding of their past to make sense of their privilege in the future, are not finding it in their school curriculum, much less in the month of February...