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core curriculum

noun as in compulsory school subjects

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Do liberal arts schools present students with a core curriculum that expects them to master foundational subjects like economics, a foreign language, composition and natural sciences?

The Obama administration offered waivers of those standards but in exchange demanded that schools teach a common core curriculum and measure teacher competency Washington’s way.

"It’s therefore so important that we all hold the new government to their pledge to restore creative subjects to the core curriculum. All of us - here, in television, not just the arts."

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In April, the same teacher read a book to the class that was not included in the core curriculum, and used a racial slur that did not appear in the book while doing so, he said.

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As Joshi transitioned into high school, he was baffled to learn that Southridge didn’t require personal finance as part of its core curriculum.

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