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...improvements aren't likely to come from the architects. Labor leader Kim Beazley's support crew is mulling over the implications of the trends in tax and welfare. Beazley is now pitching to the middle; the tax burden, workplace insecurity, high petrol prices and interest-rate rises are the core of his crusade. It's also open season on Howard's welfare mothers...
...strong and stable intellectual, practical, and civic foundation. Indeed, Horace Mann, the “father of American education,” famously said that “a human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” This is why the core of a secondary education is comprised of a set of highly specified academically rigorous courses in math, science, history, and English. Any system of majors that encroaches on this educational core would undermine this critical foundation, increasing intellectual stagnation and paralyzing both academic and all-around growth...
...described the goal of the continuing curricular review as bringing students in closer contact with professors, and urged that the still-undetermined successor to the Core Curriculum be grounded on student choice, rather than on specific required courses...
...Faculty has yet to agree on the next system of general education, which is the centerpiece of the current review and will likely replace the Core. But the review has already led to Faculty approval of a semester’s delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields—both actions that Kirby called part of an effort to bring students and professors together...
...students wait for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to slowly turn its wheels and approve new requirements for general education, the lame duck Core curriculum remains. After Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty and Arts and Sciences, it is more than clear that the proposed requirements—a broad system of general distribution requirements, rather than the current Core—will not be in place for the next school year. In the interim, the Core Standing Committee (CSC), which is the group of faculty members that determines which courses garner the label...