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core curriculum

noun

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  1. The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational,…

    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.

    • 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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