Word: diploma
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...cannot get a Radcliffe diploma...and women get a diploma which says Harvard on it," Campbell said last week. "The [new] name more accurately reflects the membership...
Some critics of the movement argue that parents may have too much freedom under current laws. Only 10 states require parents to have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma to be able to teach. "It's a giant step backward," argues Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which represents more than 15,000 public-school boards across the country. "People tend to think, as one old basketball coach said, that everybody can boil water and coach basketball, and they kind of feel the same way about teaching. They just don't know what they...
...cannot get a Radcliffe diploma...and women get a diploma which says Harvard on it," Campbell said. "The [new] name more accurately reflects the membership...
...Harvard name, it would appear, is not enough anymore. Students at HBS want more than a pretty campus and a Harvard diploma. They want a solid education and administrators who won't take them for granted. Significantly, the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania, surged from fourth place in 1992 to first this year, due to what Business Week called the "most dramatic curriculum changes at any elite school...
...lucky ones. My successors were less fortunate. Little more than a decade after I received my diploma, a series of changes and reforms rendered the General Education program less and less effective, ultimately leading to today's dilemma...