Word: curriculum
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...Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus exam that suspicious officials made a dozen of them retake the test. Each and every one passed...
...former Adams House resident, Lee has taught courses at Harvard Law School in the past and collaborated on the school’s most recent teaching venture, a problem solving course aimed at reforming the school’s curriculum. His daughter, a 2002 graduate of the College, captained the women’s swimming team...
Maggor directs the recently-created Program for Speaking and Learning, which works with faculty to integrate public speaking into their curriculum...
...think speaking should be a core part of the Harvard curriculum. Writing and speaking go very hand in hand,” said Flores, the former Undergraduate Council president. “[It’s a] life skill you should be prepared for when you graduate...
...Harvard, Fryer heard about a school in New York City that was trying to incentivize kids on a small scale. The idea appealed to him because, unlike reforms focused on the teacher or the curriculum, it treated kids not as inanimate objects but as human beings who behave in interesting ways. But he had no idea if it would work...