Word: curriculums
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...than 50%. "Right now," says Robert Munro of the Bentley School in Oakland, Calif., "we have children of postal workers, bus drivers and truckers." Not only can such parents pay, they also share a belief that public schools, even in kindergarten, are unreliable. Because of the possibility of strikes, curriculum cutbacks, busing problems and even school closings, says David Fleishhacker, headmaster of the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco, parents cannot be sure what public schools will be like from year to year. "Private schools seem more stable." Says San Francisco Child Specialist Jeanne Lepper: "Parents think...
...last year, the program added only 13 new offerings, prompting a report from Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, which predicted that "the rate at which the curriculum is being augmented with new courses will leave us considerably short of the 100 courses we hoped to be offering when the program is fully implemented...
...Report on the Core Curriculum suggested such a connection--which would have freshmen sign up for Expos sections corresponding to Core courses they are in. But for a number of reasons--a major one was that Core courses do not assign enough written work to make such a link feasible--Marius rejected the idea, and the standing committee informally decided to drop...
After the ceremony, Jewish leaders strongly criticized Georgetown for accepting the gift. Ira Silverstein, director of special programs for the American Jewish Committee, said the Arab Studies Center has a "clearly-marked pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias in its selection of curriculum material, its faculty appointments and speakers...
Intellectuals--especially social scientists--constitute another prime target. The government closed the Di Tella Institute, formerly one of Latin America's most renowned research centers for sociological studies, and most of its staff are missing or self-exiled. The state-run universities offer only a highly censored curriculum in philosophy, political science, and anthropology, and the regime is considering outlawing psychiatry and psychology. "I'm not surprised," a psychiatrist said, "They don't want people to think...