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After nearly five years of debate, the Faculty approved a new program of general education last month that will replace the generation-old Core Curriculum. The program may go into effect as early as fall 2008, and the dean of the College will be key to ensuring that the transition goes smoothly...
...Dean of Harvard College, effective August 31, 2007. Dick has served energetically as the College's dean for the past four years, and before that as Dean of Undergraduate Education for one year. In that time, Dick has done a great deal to shepherd the review of the undergraduate curriculum and to enhance many aspects of undergraduate life on campus. A summary of his achievements is contained in the attached press release...
After nearly five years of debate, the Faculty last month approved a new program of general education that will replace the generation-old Core Curriculum. The program may go into effect as early as fall 2008, and the dean of the College will be key in ensuring that the transition goes smoothly...
...spending on education today. In most of the country, local school boards-especially in affluent communities-would fight a state takeover of funding. Republicans are sticklers for local control. But what would be their argument against an entrepreneurial system, in which students choose among districts, and a curriculum that encourages creativity? In most big cities and their environs, the teachers' unions would rebel. "The teachers' unions want across-the-board raises," says New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, "but we have to create a system where there's a big financial incentive to teach in poorer neighborhoods like Harlem...
...Empirical Reasoning.” Seeking to explain that proposed requirement, some argued, unconvincingly, that it was needed because students couldn’t learn scientific method, as well as science, in their two required science courses. The mathematicians argued that Harvard could not mount a curriculum excluding mathematics, so the “empirical” area was broadened to include “mathematical reasoning.” All of which leaves reason nowhere in particular...