Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months before entering Harvard, I received a thick packet which contained lengthy pamphlets detailing Harvard's history, the Core curriculum, the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, the Expository Writing program, the House system, the schedule for freshman week, and countless other tidbits too rich to be digested immediately. Buried amid this minutiae, however, was a summer reading list of just two works, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Education of Henry Adams...
...Good meeting you all," I said, my face flush, as I quickly left. I had read Adams and so had nothing to say. My sole experience with a "great books" program offered an ironic glimpse of what it might have yielded in the regular curriculum. Skipped or unreflective reading would mean a passed-over education with a vengeance...
...Franklin Williams, along with most of his top aides, and clean out the nine-member city school board -- provided the state board confirms his plan. Explains the commissioner: "We looked at how the district governs itself, financial aspects, how they handled personnel, hire, promote and transfer, and at the curriculum. The sickness is pervasive...
...seminars, which are taught by members of the houses' Senior Common Rooms, officially are part of the General Education Department, the Core Curriculum's predecessor, which offers courses that do not fit into the guidelines of any one department...
Often, house seminars attempt to integrate several academic disciplines and approaches to learning. Some people involved in the program say this effort is close in spirit to the philosophy of the Core Curriculum...