Word: curriculums
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...double since it set up shop in Shanghai and Beijing in 2003 and 2004, respectively. The key has been the quality of education. While Dulwich's College in Shanghai recruits its faculty independently of its London parent, the majority of its teachers are British. It also follows the English curriculum. "There's a real connection to Dulwich in London," says Tina Kanagaratnam, a Singaporean whose two U.S.-citizen children attend the Shanghai school. "It's not a question of just sticking the Dulwich name on a random school." When the school was faced with the double loss of its junior...
...Georgia, was responsible for helping to educate such military men as Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega, the late Argentine junta leader imprisoned for human rights abuses Leopoldo Galtieri, and Salvadoran right-wing militia leader Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson. Despite adding a "human rights" element to its curriculum in recent years, the school has engendered so much suspicion and hostility that it was dubbed the School of Assassins...
...staged in 2001 in the cafeteria of a New York City school. By the end of this year there will have been 70 such events throughout the country, many of them in low-income areas. Working with a school principal and classroom teachers, Spoons provides an 80-page curriculum and support. The program, which takes about an hour a week for five weeks, is coordinated by a local food professional and a chef, in some cases culinary luminaries such as Tim Love of the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth, Texas, and Feliberto Estevez, the executive chef at Gracie...
...followed up with families after dinner parties. The experience, she says, "changes the way families think about their lives." The project also seems to have a lasting impact on the teachers who help lead it. Many say it inspires them to continue to integrate food and cooking into their curriculum. "We've had teachers from Pennsylvania to California tell us, 'We now cook at home differently. We value food differently.'" And so the next step for Spoons is teacher training. This fall the first group of teachers will attend national training at the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan, Ohio. That...
...have been able to do all this because this is anything but a complacent place. Harvard may seem a tough institution to love, but it does inspire loyalty. Countless times—whether in debate about the curriculum, or attempts to imagine the Allston campus, or discussions about leadership—I have heard this sentiment: “What is best for Harvard?” Ours is an institution of numerous interests, strong wills, and the potential to fracture into self-interested fiefdoms. But it turns out that institutional loyalty, without false sentimentality, is real here, and that...