Word: curriculum
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Three courses adapted from current classes have been approved for the new General Education curriculum...
...sections in English, math, reading, and science, along with an optional writing section. Ed Colby, a spokesman for the ACT, called the ACT “a curriculum based achievement test” as compared to the SAT, a reasoning test...
...What Lowell praised is now referred to as “liberal arts”—a well-rounded curriculum that attempts to balance some specialization with a breadth of knowledge, an effort to effectively create modern Renaissance men. With a Core Curriculum and 44 undergraduate concentrations, Harvard attempts to provide the sort of education that Lowell dreamt...
...this sentiment that leads many to believe that while the traditional, well-rounded curriculum may be a thing of the past, the liberal arts at Harvard are now about creating the student who can study engineering and then go on to law school, or concentrate in romance languages and then become a world-class doctor...
...threw out much that he regarded as outdated or needlessly ritualistic in the Tibetan system while gradually bringing in reforms so that women are now allowed to study for doctoral degrees and become abbots (which they could not do in old Tibet) and science is part of the monastic curriculum. Tibetan children in exile take their lessons in Tibetan until they are 10 or so-to make sure they are strongly rooted in their own tradition-and then in English ever after (so as to be connected to the modern world...