Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduate program is riddled with problems--inadequate advising, inaccessible professors, clueless teaching fellows, to name a few. But most students of the College would agree that Public Enemy Number One is the big, bad ineffectual Core Curriculum which, ironically, has been praised as one of Bok's major accomplishments...
...names economic historian Henry Rosovsky Dean of the Faculty. Rosovsky will become the father of the Core curriculum program...
...traditional rallying cries of The Crimson's editorial page is for Harvard to "reform" the Core Curriculum, a set of general liberal arts classes from which each student must take about eight. Though each generation of students--with their short four year stays--may view their cries as unique, The Crimson Staff has been making this demand since before the Core was even instituted. In June 1977, when then-Dean Henry Rosovsky was still designing the curriculum, The Crimson Staff was already calling for a revamp...
...somewhat skeptical of the idea that we are "learning how to learn," a theory that career advisers and Harvard bureaucrats like to use. If this is true, then we would hardly need the Core curriculum or the QRR since every class would impart the same fundamental knowledge. But if we are not going to use what we learn, and we are not learning to learn, then ultimately we must be buying the name for our future...
This democratization of the highway has occurred simultaneously to a decline in traditional driver's education, once a near universal part of the curriculum in America's secondary schools--and a course beloved by generations of high schoolers, since the only way you could fail was by running over the instructor's cat. According to Allen Robinson, CEO of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, 15 years ago, nearly 90% of all new drivers had taken an official driver's education course. With budget cuts chopping the course out of many public schools, that figure is down...