Word: curriculum
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...five years at Rice, he has spearheaded a massive fundraising and publicity campaign, boosted the size of the applicant pool, developed graduate schools, reformed the undergraduate curriculum and funded expanded research efforts...
...fact, many contend that Rupp has tried to "Harvardize" Rice by building up graduate programs and implementing "foundation courses" in the undergraduate curriculum which closely resemble Harvard's Core Curriculum requirements...
Clark is strict but sympatico. "We're making up for all that they didn't learn on the reservation," he says. "But they learn fast." The curriculum at the academy, which includes four years of a foreign language, is considerably more rigorous than that of public schools on the reservation. Clark says that when the students arrive at school, fresh off the reservation, they are often shamed by their lack of education and are painfully reticent. "Every year," says Clark, "we get students who are at fourth- or fifth- grade reading levels...
...average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading the test selections. Many colleges, notably in the Midwest, are turning to the rival ACT exam, put out by the American College Testing Program. That 3-hr. battery of exams claims to measure student skills in four curriculum areas: English, reading, science reasoning and math...
...concern is a major reason why ETS is devoting more of its energies to curriculum development. On tests there may be instant answers, but not in the learning process. It may take years before educators can decide whether Anrig and his colleagues have created new solutions or compounded old problems for America's troubled schools...