Word: curriculums
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...Academy High School, she saw an English class working its way through pristine copies of To Kill a Mockingbird. The new materials for teaching science, English and math are one element of the transformation plan - one that clearly thrills teachers. Duncan explains that each department gets three choices of curriculum materials rather than having them dictated by the central office. The process helps to energize the teachers and get them working together, say administrators and educators. "I've been science department chair for four years, but this is the first time we are really working as a team," says Sima...
Last year, the College began to implement its new life sciences curriculum. The first step was the creation of Life Sciences 1a and 1b as introductory courses into any Life Sciences track. The result was predictable. Life Science 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution” received a CUE score on average one point lower than other natural science courses with a quarter of its veterans recommending for people to not take the course...
...late 2006, the task force charged with overhauling Harvard’s Core curriculum dropped “reason and faith” from its proposed list of general education courses, sending a very poignant message to the entire student body: religious debate does not belong in the realm of an undergraduate education...
...year extravaganza called KIDSHOW. The performance is coordinated by STAGE (Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment), an after-school program that works at five different sites in and around Boston. In the group, Harvard undergraduate volunteers try to teach children important life skills through a performing arts curriculum. “Theater is this really powerful tool, not just for performing arts,” says former STAGE President, current board member, and after-school volunteer Christopher W. Lawton ’07. “Kids are learning a skill-set that everyone can apply to their life...
...controversial a topic as faith may be, the university’s decision to exclude faith and reason from the Core curriculum may be doing more harm than good...