Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That a school has successfully mounted a series of programs, or even that its courses find favor with experienced practitioners does not mean that its faculty has yet devised an ideal way to prepare students for responsible jobs in their profession. No curriculum ever achieves this aim in full--education is too imperfect a process for that--and many faculties are further from the goal than their presidents would like to admit. But it is particularly unlikely that a young professional school embarked on an ambitious new strategy will manage in two decades to build a truly satisfactory curriculum...
...would pretend that the School's curriculum yet conveys nearly all that public servants need to know, nor even all that they might possibly be taught about the arts and skills of policy making and administration...
Cook, who oversaw the development of a plant science curriculum for elementary school children while at Cornell Plantations, came to Harvard after directing Cornell's arboretum and botanical gardens. The curriculum he helped develop is now used in schools throughout New York State...
Today there is no ROTC training at Harvard; the former ROTC building now houses a day-care center. Army officers are no longer granted the course curriculum. We view this as a considerable improvement, and a vindication of the goals of the '69 strike. However, Harvard has become nationally and internationally known for its refusal to divest its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. Long after many other universities, city and state governments, pension funds and other institutions have fully divested, long after Rev. Sullivan and other advocates of gradual change in South Africa have come to support...
...another shadow haunts Soviet filmmakers, and it may be harder to escape. This is the legacy of Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko and Dziga Vertov, the giants of Soviet silent cinema. Their works (October, Mother, Earth, Man with a Movie Camera) remain at the core of every film curriculum; movies are still made in the visual language they helped invent...