If I still believed that childhood obesity was something that I was called to dedicate my life to, then I could find a way to create after-school sports and fitness programs, educational seminars, or new school curriculum that developed fundamental changes in the habits of parents and children.

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They also said the curriculum changes betrayed a serious distrust in teachers.

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In separate announcements, both schools announced major curriculum changes, indicating that the loud noise from the past years, including the blame the MBA community continues to receive for the Wall Street crisis, seems to have been heard.

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Wide-ranging changes to the exam system, the national curriculum and teachers' pay in England have been confirmed in the Queen's Speech.

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Before Galileo began running balls down an inclined plane to measure changes in velocity, and before Descartes developed his coordinate system, the German Jesuit Christoph Clavius, designed the mathematics curriculum for the major universities of Europe.

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