Word: review
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Whether or not the school's review is a reaction to external or internal criticism--or both--the debate it has sparked over the extent to which quantitative approaches should continue to dominate the school's curriculum promises to reshape the school under Putnam...
While Allison played a relatively insignificant part in the review--leaving the process in the hands of faculty and students--professors say they expect Putnam will play a larger role in determining the future direction of the curriculum review. The next stage, they say, will include the actual development of courses in ethics and politics...
...coordinating committee of the review suggested that the core curriculum for the school's two-year Management in Public Policy Program (MPP) replace three semesters of required courses in statistics, public management and micro-economics with courses in ethics, politics and macro-economics or finance...
...From the beginning of the curriculum review, it came out clearly that many people, including the president, believed that if the review did nothing else, it surely must address getting more ethics into the curriculum," says Professor of Public Policy Steven Kelman '70. "I think it is a really important and significant step that the Kennedy School becomes the first public policy school in the country to require an ethics course...
...hope that one of the things that we do with our curriculum review is to keep things experimental for a few years," Zeckhauser says. "I want us to try a lot of different things and see what works...