Word: curriculum
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...University and local officials secured more than $30 million in grants and helped overhaul the district's curriculum and teaching methods. Some schools wiped out uninspired drills and work sheets in the younger grades, and high schools began pushing students to take three years each of rigorous college preparatory math and science. Before UTEP stepped in, just a small percentage of students took Algebra II and Chemistry; now more than half do. Compared with 1994, when just one school in the university-aided districts netted an exemplary rating on state exams, last year 18 did. Most important, the university ascribes...
...wants to incorporate teaching into graduate school curriculum. He'd like to reduce the overall size of the GSAS. Ellison would also like to enhance research training for all students through a program called "Research Apprenticeships." Also on the agenda are plans to expand a pilot summer orientation program for international students...
...another session, "Issues of Women and Gender in the FAS Curriculum," Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies Juliet B. Schor delved into how women's issues could be better integrated into Harvard's curriculum through increased focus on women's studies in class and through the hiring of more female professors...
...Some alumnae want more women on the faculty, but don't want them studying women; they see that as another kind of ghettoization" Schor said. "They want them doing astrophysics. But others want them changing the way the curriculum is taught...
...Sandel emphasizes the courses' curriculum rather than his own skills as a teacher. The subject matter, he says, is what makes "Justice" popular...