Word: curriculum
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...Undergraduate Council will only become a relevant and legitimate part of the College community if it begins to address the issues that most significantly affect life at Harvard. This year, we have an unparalleled opportunity to make fundamental changes in Harvard's curriculum; your student government should fight to reduce the number of concentration requirements, eliminate the "grading gap," and engage the Faculty on the question of section sizes. Your student government should actively seek alternative sources of funding to increase the amount of money available to student groups, and it should press the administration to provide space...
Turning from our perceptions of children to the children themselves, Adatto argued that what we need is "a school curriculum to make us critical and reflective readers of the media." This is a very strange goal. Does Adatto expect us to raise a country full of kids capable of sneering, "Reporter X wrote that, well, you can't take it too seriously then. You know, he voted for Perot"? Even if it were possible to transform children into media wonks at the age of eight, why would we want...
...council under Rawlins has followed a three-year trend toward increased political activism in the council and has tackled issues large and small, including the moral rectitude of the protests against Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Core Curriculum reform, shuttle service and the controversy over grapes in Harvard dining halls...
...remember going to school, not having to sing 'God Save the Queen' but singing another anthem, and all the British flags coming down, to be replaced by Kenyan ones," says Asani, who grew up in Africa. "Also, after independence, the school curriculum changed to stress Africa. Before, we studied Britain and Europe, and next to nothing about Africa...
...whole world." Some students attribute near miraculous powers to Berg; a former devotee, who prefers to remain anonymous, admits to having believed the Rav was the channel for God's word. Berg has written the bulk of the works that make up the center's core curriculum. That is a disturbing monopoly to critics who dispute Berg's theology. Berg traces the center's roots to two Israeli rabbis, the late Yehudah Ashlag and Brandwein. But Brandwein's son Avraham denies any connection between the center and Brandwein's legacy, and some scholars characterize Berg's teachings...