Word: curriculum
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...Future and the Home of the Past, that Disney's Celebration should be celebrated. Beneath the small-town facade lies a state-of-the-art system that includes a computer network designed to keep the entire community connected. The school's exterior may invoke nostalgia, but its curriculum will aim directly at the future. Here, however, it is hoped that individual progress will not come at the expense of community or family. Although Disney sets the guidelines for town policies, the planned community does not have the impositional overtones often associated with the "family values" agenda; there are no screenings...
ESPP concentrators generally say they appreciate the broad base of knowledge of the environment and policy-making they receive from the curriculum...
BELL organized the opening ceremonies in order to showcase the new additions to its BELL After School Instituted Curriculum (BASICS) program. BASICS is a community service provided by volunteer and work-study college students who spend three to nine hours per week helping local underprivileged elementary school children master reading and math...
Parochial schools have a better record of getting children whose parents did not attend college to take pre-college courses, like advanced math. According to Diane Ravitch, author of National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide, their secret is no secret: a core curriculum. "Catholics don't ask parents what courses their children should take," she says approvingly. "They just assign them...
...course, much to the disillusionment of some students who had seen a glimmer of hope for the Core Curriculum, this class, like others during this term, will be lotteried...