Word: curriculums
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Many of the logistical questions surrounding the new curriculum have been left to this committee, which will be appointed this summer and replace the Core Standing Committee in summer...
Though groups from across the campus were engaged in the process of developing the general education curriculum, the length of the process—beginning over four years ago, in October 2002—has made it difficult for undergraduates to develop a sustained interest in the process, according to the undergraduates interviewed...
...issues have been under discussion for a long time, and it’s difficult to keep students engaged for four years,” Petersen said. Nowski also mentioned that student discussion ebbed and flowed as the curriculum underwent multiple drafts...
Indeed, perhaps the Harvard of fifty years ago provides a healthier academic and social model for us to follow. A substantive core curriculum ensured undergraduates learned math and read Shakespeare and Plato. Hyper-competitive students moderated themselves through a custom that shunned egoistic ambition. Grade inflation hardly existed, for earning a “Gentleman’s ‘C’” was no mark of shame—indeed, everyone already understood that a Harvard degree meant something...
...bromide, it becomes, well, much less of a bromide. According to a report released earlier this week by ACT, the company that is responsible for the eponymous college entrance examination finds that only 26 percent of American students who graduate from high school having taken a college-preparatory curriculum are in fact prepared for college-level work. If these findings are correct, they point to an alarming decline in the quality of secondary education in America. What’s more troubling is that, despite these results, upwards of 17 million students are currently enrolled in the nations approximately four...