So How's That Open Curriculum going

shawbridge
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:09:51 +0000

My son, who is strong at math and science and is quite dyslexic, likes Amherst because he does not have to take a foreign language (a couple of the schools he got into had fairly onerous decision-making processes for deciding whether the requirement would be waived and would not do so until he’d become a freshman) and can organize his courses so he has one heavy reading/writing course per semester instead of three, which might be needed to meet other schools’ distribution requirements. Although he doesn’t plan to be a math major, I think he’ll probably take math all the way through college.

So, here’s another example of the open curriculum’s use that doesn’t reduce math or science exposure.