Word: curriculum
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...quell such worries, some educators and policymakers are embracing more comprehensive sex education. Waco public schools, which comprise the largest school district in McLennan County, declined the federal and state grant money for abstinence-only education and opted instead for a curriculum that includes information about contraceptives. Some schools in Minnesota have a dual-track sex-ed system, in which parents choose between an abstinence-only class and one that includes instruction in other ways of preventing pregnancy and STDs. And in Missouri and California, new laws require sex education to be "medically accurate" in portraying the effectiveness of contraceptives...
...Kansas Board of Education which voted to include creationism in school curriculum is a fine example of this phenomenon. Five out of the ten members elected to the Board are conservative Christians elected in the fall of 1998. They were elected right under the nose of moderate Republicans preoccupied with the high-profile Republican gubernatorial primary which pitted a former Kansas Christian Coalition head against moderate Bill Graves. By moving the debate away from the abortion clinic doors (or rather, being banished from them by the FACE act) they have colored themselves as innocuous citizens merely concerned for the welfare...
Margaret J. Geller's curriculum vitae reads "Professor of Astronomy (without University tenure), Harvard University...
Additional faculty hires would do much to reduce class sizes, reinvigorate our impoverished Core curriculum and facilitate greater faculty-student interaction. As academia becomes increasingly more expansive and specialized, additional faculty will allow Harvard to remain a top research and teaching institution...
Kids talk in class and refuse to focus, while Frey is stuck with a curriculum that assumes all of her students can read...