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...proposes “international education” for students ages 3 to 19 “to live, learn, and work in a rapidly globalizing world,” according to its Web site. Schools can offer IB courses either as an alternative or in conjunction with existing curricula. “The subject areas are like courses available now at Cambridge Rindge and Latin,” said Evangeline H. Stefanakis, a Boston University professor who presented aspects of the IB program at last night’s meeting. The thrust of the argument for the IB program...
...Harvard men who had not just altered the University but the world around it. In the 1940s, Paul H. Buck held the post, chairing the committee that produced the “General Education in a Free Society” report, better known as the Red Book, which influenced curricula in higher education for a generation. McGeorge Bundy was chosen as dean in 1953 by University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, later to be tapped by another president, John F. Kennedy ’40, to serve as his adviser...
...While most of the nation’s top universities—including Harvard—still slant their curricula heavily toward the liberal arts, the effect is that many students spend their college days reading about everything from dinosaurs to Descartes, but then leave Cambridge for jobs completely unrelated to their course work. This dichotomy of the education and subsequent lives of Harvard students begs the question: amid the growing emphasis on professional preparation, just how relevant are the liberal arts to the lives of undergraduates...
...Left Behind. The tests measure competency in English, math, science and history. Since students are required to pass several tests to graduate, and are examined by local, state, and federal government to determine how well the school is performing, the tests will inevitably have a major effect on school curricula. Rather than dictating school curricula through centralized, standardized tests, curricula should be developed on a more localized level. This philosophy is well represented in the new budget by a proposal to give out grants of $5,000 to elementary schools that design their own curricula. In addition to encouraging creativity...
Fowler-Finn also remarked that the proposal will offer grants of 5,000 dollars to elementary school principals who develop their own curricula, adding that they should still keep the state standards as a “guiding force.” He later said that a majority of the principals have yet to express interest in applying for these grants...