core curriculum
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[edit]Noun
[edit]core curriculum (plural core curricula or core curriculums)
- (education) 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.
- 1923, James M. Glass, “The Reorganization of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades—Program of Studies”, in The School Review, volume 31, number 7, pages 523–524:
- 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.
- 1991, David M. Bossman, “Cross-Cultural Values for a Pluralistic Core Curriculum”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 62, number 6, page 662:
- 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.
- 2007, Anne C. Lewis, “Language Learning and National Security”, in Phi Delta Kappan, volume 89, number 2, page 84:
- Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum.
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