Word: curriculum
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Proponents of MCAS say education reform has spurred important changes in curriculum, like a new focus on writing and analytical thinking...
...Bush's blueprint is the Margaret H. Cone Head Start Center in Dallas, where kindergartners' verbal scores rocketed 20% on standardized exams after the center adopted a language-centered curriculum. But this formula, slowly set in motion by a 1998 federal law, could be difficult to clone nationwide: average per pupil spending for Head Start is slightly more than $5,000, vs. more than $7,000 at the corporate-backed Cone Center. Even if Congress okays the move from HHS to the Education Department (President Jimmy Carter tried - and failed - to do the same), the change of responsibility will...
...past five years. One example: three years ago, the Bronx's P.S. 3 ranked 672nd among New York City schools - fourth from the bottom. The city fired the principal, replaced two thirds of the teachers, extended the school day and switched from a touchy-feely "real life" curriculum to one emphasizing basic instruction in reading and math. In one year, math scores on the state exam jumped 15 percent and reading scores 8.5 percent...
...Kennedy and Dororthy Day, but his book also makes use of his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and other episodes of social and political conflict. Coles takes these experiences, along with a few musings on authors like Conrad and Emerson (which would probably fit very will within the curriculum of Gen. Ed. 105) and presents them as a sort of reader on the qualities of moral leadership-not just to lead, but to lead well...
...year tenure, Bok lived up to his names. He oversaw the Harvard-Radcliffe merger of 1977, participated in restructuring the curriculum and implemented many other changes...