Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real problem with Harvard's curriculum, though, is not that the Core is too foreign; rather, it is entirely too familiar. So many Core courses deal with the present or recent past--"The Warren Court" in Historical Studies B and "Industrial East Asia" in Foreign Cultures, for instance--that students are tempted to explore the cozy space within their current horizons rather than take a broadening course. Also, it seems that every ethnicity is recognized with at least one course, allowing students, in effect, to study the subject with which they are already (and quite inevitably) most familiar: themselves...
...into this minefield, and explore the whys and wherefores of the storm surrounding sex education. The original analysis grew out of two recent studies by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation, which reported that fully one third of American public school districts follow an abstinence-only curriculum in their sex education classes. We wondered if abstinence education was working, and suggested that perhaps such an approach was unrealistic in light of what we know about sexual behavior among teens. And people let us know exactly what they thought, no holds barred. Whatever the opinion, it's been...
...Analysts at HHS attribute this decline to several factors, including decreased sexual activity, increases in condom use and the adoption of new (injectable or implant) contraceptive devices. In other words, the good news about teen pregnancy is traceable to a combination of abstinence and contraceptive education, or an inclusive curriculum. Not coincidentally, the vast majority of Americans favor inclusive sex education; according to HHS, more than 80 percent of Americans over 30 and 90 percent of Americans under 30 believe that birth control information should be made available to teenagers. The American Medical Association recently announced its support for comprehensive...
...about sex, contraception and abstinence. And given that two thirds of American public schools do teach a combination of abstinence and sex education, and that rates of teen pregnancy have reached their lowest point in two decades, it may be possible to draw the preliminary conclusion that the combination curriculum is working. Of course, as any statistician or social scientist will tell you, it's always dangerous to draw conclusions from a "snapshot," or a year or two of statistics. And, as in any heated debate, everyone is more than willing to take whatever information they can get - and spin...
...school's motto is "For Christ and For Liberty," and the only major will be government. The plan is to educate students through a combination of a classical liberal arts curriculum (which, according to their Web site, consists of "Bible, logic, rhetoric, composition, Latin, western civilization, American history, and a great books study of English and American literature") and a clinical experience program working on Capitol Hill with members of Congress. PHC wants to create a new generation of politicians out of home-schoolers...