Word: curriculums
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...Students are sentenced to the Albuquerque facility from all across New Mexico for crimes ranging from sexual assault to a history of shoplifting. Murphy works hard to make the school as normal, and as positive, as possible. Although the curriculum is standard, teachers face challenges dealing with many students who gave up on school long ago. A student council does meet daily, while a dads' group meets weekly, during which time the young fathers record themselves reading a book to their children, and then have the tape sent home...
...General Education report at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, members of some departments are still calling for tweaks to the first overhaul of general education in 30 years.Prominent members of the history and economics departments have expressed concerns about the place of their disciplines in the new curriculum, fearing that their subjects do not fall neatly into any of the categories.Given the proposed curriculum’s divisions, “The social sciences generally, as well as the study of the past, are the two areas that don’t fit so automatically anywhere...
...should teach “ways of learning.” This groundbreaking system envisioned that every student could be a mini-scientist, a mini-philosopher, and in the case of Literature and Arts C, a mini-starving artist. It was the Golden Age for education, and the Core Curriculum was welcomed in the streets as a liberator. Soon, order and happiness grew in the area as the oil flowed to the west from the democratic light of the Middle East?...
When it failed, the Core Curriculum did so not because of students, professors, or the administration, but because of the weakness of its philosophy. The different ways of learning at first sounded quite appealing as a path out of lackluster academia, but like all academic fads ended up replacing orthodox restrictions with restrictions that were even more whimsical and limiting. Classes that didn’t state in their syllabus the goal of making a student a Science B-ian or a Moral Reasoning-itian couldn’t were cast...
...unique piece of time where only current events and practical training matter. Instead, our time is a continuation of every time before us. The great ideas that percolate today are direct descendents of the great ideas of our collective past. Therefore, Harvard College needs a general education curriculum that revolves around this past instead of blindly embracing a new transient whim...