Word: curriculum
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...states, each of which devises its own annual tests and curriculum standards, setting the bar high enough for students, and if not, what should be done about...
...inevitable. Decreeing that all kids (except 1% with serious disabilities and an additional 2% with other issues) must be proficient by 2014 is a little like declaring that all the children are above average in the mythical town of Lake Wobegon. California has some of the toughest K-12 curriculum standards in the nation, and O'Connell despairs of hitting the 2014 goal. "Today we don't have any of our schools with 100% student proficiency, and I will predict that we won't by 2014," he says. "Right now about one-quarter of our kids have to be proficient...
...Faculty’s lack of enthusiasm is also disconcerting because the ostensible purpose of the curricular review was to reinvigorate the curriculum and to create new classes. Faced with this uninspiring "new" rubric, faculty will be more likely to simply adapt their Core course to the new rubric, creating Core version...
...meetings have ended, the smoke is white, and Harvard College has a brand new curriculum. The infamous Core Curriculum, a relic of the last Bok administration, has finally been sent to its demise and in its place will stand a new general education system...
...interests of the students for whom much ink has been spilt, we beseech the Committee to stray from the constrictiveness of the Core Curriculum in favor of flexibility and freedom for students, creating system that does not tyrannize students with its narrowness. If they err in this regard, general education will amount to nothing but a shiny new set of hoops through which each undergraduate must joylessly jump. But they have the power to improve on the current system’s frustrating inflexibility, even if it is too late to save the whole curricular review...