core curriculum

noun

Education.

1. a curriculum in which all or some of the subjects or courses are based on a central theme in order to correlate the subjects and the theme.

Example Sentences

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?

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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.

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"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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