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...next act How to make France a cultural giant again? One place to start is the education system, where a series of reforms over the years has crowded the arts out of the curriculum. "One learns to read at school, one doesn't learn to see," complains Pierre Rosenberg, a former director of the Louvre museum. To that end, Sarkozy has proposed an expansion of art-history courses for high schoolers. He has also promised measures to entice more of them to pursue the literature baccalaureate program. Once the most popular course of study, it is now far outstripped...
EMILIE ROSENBLATT, Columbia University senior, on the end of a 10-day student hunger strike. The action was aimed at reforming the curriculum to include more ethnic studies and preventing university expansion into Harlem...
...such straightforward reassurance may not be enough to counteract the tutoring industry's bells and whistles, such as Sylvan's trained instructors and Score! Educational Centers' fancy computer-based curriculum. Kumon encourages the pre-K crowd to come in twice a week for about 30 minutes--at a cost of about $125 a month--to memorize letter charts and study flash cards. "I didn't feel like my son was where he could be," says Gina Monteiro, 38, a quality-assurance worker in Indianapolis who in June started taking her 4-year-old to lengthy sessions at a place called...
...these problems are troubling and the group’s solutions are worthy of consideration, but neither seems to accord with the special significance of the hunger strike as a form of extra-democratic activism. Increased discussion with Columbia administrators, collective student pressure upon the Committee on the Core Curriculum (upon which three current undergraduates sit), even sit-ins and picket lines would seem to be more appropriate forms of encouraging progress. Especially in the forum of a higher educational institution, discourse and weight of argument should be relied on to advocate and cajole. Desperation tactics such as the hunger...
...Bloom cited as the chief accomplishment of his tenure the creation of a case-based curriculum design that he said “could last for 20 years” instead of needing to be changed with every new epidemic...