Word: curriculums
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...requirements, which are less nebulous and divisive, are compelling alternatives to “reason and faith.” The report, for example, conspicuously neglects to recommend that students receive a firm grounding in the basic principles of economics. It is difficult to see how a general education curriculum will prepare “students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society” without giving them a basic understanding of markets. The lack of emphasis in the report on the hard sciences and mathematics—a student could conceivably graduate barely having glanced...
...last time Harvard Law School (HLS) had a comprehensive curricular review was in 1870—the Franco-Prussian war was just getting underway. Then, Dean Christopher C. Langdell instituted the first-year curriculum, consisting of contracts, torts, civil procedure, criminal, and property law, that has stood as the hallmark of first year American legal education to this day. Although Harvard can all too easily rest on its laurels, it is refreshing to see such decisive action emanating from the legal scholars here in Cambridge. We commend HLS Dean Elena Kagan and the HLS faculty for ensuring that our University...
...voices of protest came at a particularly crucial juncture for science at Harvard, with the unveiling last week of a new plan to overhaul the Core Curriculum for undergraduates and key decisions looming over what the multi-billion-dollar Allston campus will look like...
...Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), which is facing administrative changes of its own.This summer, Christopher Saheed was named acting principal of Cambridge’s only public high school for the 2006-2007 school year, following a secretive search process. Saheed, who previously served as the dean of curriculum and programs for one of the high school’s learning communities—subdivisions of the student population intended to provide a more intimate environment—is the fourth principal to serve at the school’s helm in the last seven school years. But high...
...proposed overhaul of the College’s Core curriculum released last week has already mollified several outspoken Faculty critics of the four-year-old attempt to update Harvard’s general education requirements—and professors said the plan stands a strong chance of gaining the full Faculty’s approval in the coming months...