Word: curriculums
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...classrooms Zanker first used borrowed offices or living rooms, then began renting public school rooms at $5 to $10 a night. To promote his curriculum, which he dubbed the Learning Annex, he took $5,000 that he had saved from his Bar Mitzvah, printed a course brochure, dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...
...district is also looking at possibly starting the high school day at least an hour later, because research shows that teenagers just aren't ready to learn at 7:30 a.m. Grades K-3 are getting a curriculum review to ensure that kids don't fall behind at the beginning of their school career. Next August, the district will introduce a program that allows kids who have been suspended or expelled to continue working toward their diploma...
...effort to revamp the core curriculum “will not amount to any meaningful change” unless the final General Education report includes more stringent guidelines about which courses will count under the new requirements, three undergraduate focus groups concluded yesterday. In a letter sent to the Task Force on General Education, the students expressed broad support for the task force’s philosophy of general education as preparation for life after Harvard. In contrast, the current core emphasizes exposure to different academic approaches to knowledge. But the students expressed concern that the proposed categories could become...
Thanks are owed to Harvard College, and particularly to its Core Curriculum, which, in case you were confused, is the “general education” complement to our departmental “concentrations.” In Harvard’s words, the Core is “an attempt to say what it means to be broadly educated...
...still waiting to meet even a single Harvard student who likes the Core Curriculum. No doubt it will go unlamented once its long-anticipated, continuously-postponed repeal is finally accomplished. And then, the student body will let up some great declaration of “huh…whatever” to inaugurate the Core’s reincarnat…I mean, its replacement...