No one can hope to force "The Grapes of Wrath" out of high-school syllabi — it's the answer to S.A.T. questions about the Great Depression, after all.
In addition, Khan Academy is in early talks with India's Ministry of Human Resource Development to match schools' syllabi with the relevant Web tutorials.
The book, a part of so many high-school syllabi, appears to be helping people contextualize political rhetoric; the sales boost even led Michiko Kakutani at The New York Times to write an homage to the still-relevant novel, headlined "Why '1984' Is a 2017 Must-Read".
NCTQ faced severe resistance in its quest to gather materials about the institutions included in the report; in a few states, the organization even had to sue to gain access to schools' syllabi.
The exam boards select work from random students to scrutinise, but they have a vested interest in schools choosing their syllabi so they are unlikely to be too rigorous.
See the table of faculty members on the GEP website (http://gep.wustl.edu/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Faculty) for a listing of syllabi, indicating the participating school and type of course.
However, although all responding schools indicated that CAM was covered in their syllabi, the fact that two of the schools considered that there were no formal requirements suggests that, at least at the time of surveying, not all schools were up-to-date in terms of Tomorrow's Doctors.
This paper examines the inclusion (or otherwise) of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in medical syllabi in UK medical schools.
Their arguments appear with great regularity in Sunday School classrooms, youth group workshops, and even in the syllabi of courses at fundamentalist schools like Liberty University and Bob Jones University.
Currently, when I have to inform my parents and students in Israel of school news and changes in class schedules and syllabi, we use email and social media outlets, not letters or phone calls.
