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Members of the Cambridge School Committee discussed the possibility of implementing an International Baccalaureate (IB) program in Cambridge Public Schools at a public roundtable event yesterday. The IB program proposes “international education?? for students ages 3 to 19 “to live, learn, and work in a rapidly globalizing world,” according to its Web site. Schools can offer IB courses either as an alternative or in conjunction with existing curricula. “The subject areas are like courses available now at Cambridge Rindge and Latin,” said Evangeline...
...Similarly, results from the Department for Education and Skills published in 2006 also show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children in Britain have low levels of education, denoting a lack of progress since immigration. National exams taken at age 16—the General Certificate of Secondary Education??show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children are well below the 40 percent mean of British children gaining 5 or more passing grades (C or higher in any subjects including English and Math), considered by the government to be a standard for passing high school. According to Professor Modood?...
...paradigmatic example of top-down opinion leadership is the Supreme Court’s 1954 “Brown v. Board of Education?? decision calling for desegregation. The Supreme Court’s decision reflected and—likely more so—contributed to shifting public opinion on racial issues...
Anthony T. Kronman, a professor at Yale Law School, defended his controversial new book, “Education??s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning of Life,” before a panel of professors in the Thompson Room last night. Kronman spoke at Harvard as a part of the Humanities Center’s series “20 Questions,” in which professors from a wide range of disciplines question notable intellectuals who have written provocative books. “The real idea is to introduce the widest...
...Given that many employers now care little what undergraduates actually studied in their classes, students have begun to craft a new type of liberal education??one where extracurriculars are the key part of career training, and academics become, in some sense, extracurricular themselves. According to Bill Wright-Swadel, the director of the Office of Career Services, the perception of liberal arts education as peripheral is not far from the truth when it comes to firms that recruit at Harvard. “Employers that we talk to for the most part tell us that the concentration...