Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dissatisfied with the high school preparation of some Harvard students, professors are being forced to reconsider the proper role of the Core Curriculum and the basic function of higher education...
...years after Harvard's Core Curriculum was touted as the new model for undergraduate education, Harvard's administrators are taking a step back--and considering whether the secondary school preparation its undergraduates have received is compatible with the Core's "modes of learning" approach...
...Harvard is not well-suited to help students without a solid grounding in history and science, since the Core Curriculum is designed to teach undergraduates modes of analysis rather than basic facts and figures...
...annual budget letter mailed to faculty members this week, Spence spotlighted eight areas where he said a major infusion of new funds was needed to ensure Harvard's continued pre-eminence. Top priorities include internationalization of the curriculum and student body and a dramatic expansion in the number of professors...
...opportunity for them to learn about things that normally wouldn't be taught in a high school curriculum," says Daniel A. Sachs '90, who directs the program. "It doesn't present Harvard students as total geeks only interested in facts...