Meaning of core curriculum | Babel Free

Definitions

The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.

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Examples

“The senior high school, if free to concentrate on intensive specialized courses and a core curriculum of constants, will consummate the socially integrating influences of the elementary school.”

“Thus, the undergraduate core curriculum is a college's foundational education, a developing lens that effectively focuses issues of whatever sort and projects them, so focused, onto a community screen as conventional wisdom.”

“Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum.”

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