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...CHA’s mission also includes providing health care to the community. According to Medical School professor David H. Bor, the clerkship program—which receives much of its financial support from the Medical School—is a redesign of the traditional third-year medical curriculum. “The Cambridge Health Alliance will continue to be a premier setting for the education of health professional students and post-graduate trainees,” said Bor, who is also the CHA’s chief of medicine. “We provide an exceptional setting in which...
...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...
...more localized level. This philosophy is well represented in the new budget by a proposal to give out grants of $5,000 to elementary schools that design their own curricula. In addition to encouraging creativity and diversity in education, these grants would encourage principals to shape their curriculum to the needs of their particular students, thus keeping control over education at the local level where it belongs. We can only hope such grants are successful and a similar idea is someday applied in high and junior high schools. That being said, the new proposal still unfortunately encourages principles...
...entertainment shows, it received more than four times as much media attention as the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which, shockingly, was overlooked by E! More than 1,000 people in the U.S. were trained to give Gore's presentation, 110,000 teachers downloaded a curriculum, and the movie became part of the syllabus in some schools in Britain. Three months after the film's U.S. release, California passed sweeping legislation to curb greenhouse gases. In the days leading up to the legislature's vote, one of the bill's co-authors hosted free screenings of the film...
...While my own undergraduate curriculum sometimes seemed, in spite of my best attempts, like a motley assortment of disconnected subjects, I always consoled myself with the thought that at least the agency I had been given was empowering. I was learning to take control of an intellectual project, formulating questions that interested me and seeking ways to answer them. I doubt that the program at Cambridge has the same intent. It demonstrates less confidence in the ability of undergraduates to create a meaningful program of study. Yet, in spite of such pedagogical constraints, the intellectual life here is just...