Word: eds
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...ethical choice as one category, or added some things that seem to reflect new educational needs that are more apparent now than at the time the General Education program was adopted. And two, that I would mention there is the emphasis on quantitative skills, which even when Gen Ed was adopted, which is about the time I went to college, was perceived as something that scientists and engineers and maybe doctors might need but not the majority, and since then there's been a pervasive impact of quantitative forms of reasoning. So the second one is the emphasis on foreign...
Lyman joined the Board of Trustees in 1958, and returned to get a degree from the Ed School in 1963. At this time, she says, she began to see "a tendency towards a group who was assuming Radcliffe should merge with Harvard and be distributed in it. This concerned me because I wasn't sure whether this was quite the way we should go...I realized that money was a major problem, and that lack of money seemed to be the real threat to Radcliffe's survival." So Lyman became interested in fundraising, and it soon became evident that...
...Crimson originally opposed the Core and maintains that stand. While the General Education program certainly needed revamping, the Core is not the answer. Its rigid and complicated structure adds unnecessary restrictions to the already limited choices students face in pursuing a 'liberal education.' The Gen Ed principle, requiring a wide variety of courses in a loose framework, is desirable, but the Core goes too far, specifying too narrowly what the undergraduate education will be. It is only a poor substitute for good advice and counseling that would direct students toward a balanced education, without coercing them...
...longtime observer puts it, "to once again leave education out in the cold." The battle over a Cabinet-level Department of Education is no mere bureacratic reshuffling; the proposal and its advocates and opponents stretch from the inner sanctum of the Oval Office to Longfellow Hall at Harvard's Ed School...
...Zimmer? Bill Lee? Ed McMahon...