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unusual facts about Curriculum


DISCO – European Dictionary of Skills and Competences

Instead it functions as a thesaurus of skills and competences which is based on existing international standards and classifications and thus represents a terminological basis for the description of skills and competences, occupations as well as personal skill profiles and CVs, job vacancies, and job requirements or for describing curricula, courses, Diploma and Certificate Supplements or learning outcomes in general.


Aeneas James George Mackay

He went on to University College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1862, proceeding M.A. in 1865, and then at Heidelberg University, completing his legal curriculum at Edinburgh University, where he was one of the first to obtain the degree of LL.B.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

In October 2013, APT took out newspaper ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newton TAB, Boston Metro, and Jewish Advocate alleging the presence of anti-Israeli materials being incorporated into the Newton Public Schools curriculum.

Association for Childhood Education International

During World War II, ACEI sent books, toys, and curriculum materials to teachers and children in Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Italy.

Association of MBAs

a full-time MBA curriculum should contain no less than 500 contact (scheduled classroom) hours and a distance-learning MBA program should have no less than 120 synchronous contact hours;

Australian International School Hong Kong

It follows the New South Wales curriculum where final year (grade twelve) students can either pursue the Higher School Certificate of the New South Wales Board of Studies or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (since September 2005 when it became an IB World School).

Baylor University Institute for Oral History

In 1971, Dr. Charlton received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop undergraduate and graduate curriculum offerings in oral history.

Bering Strait School District

The district, working with the Alaska Staff Development Network, the Re-inventing Schools Coalition, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has created a standards-based curriculum and abolished grade level groupings.

Buzz!: The Schools Quiz

The game's 5,000 questions are based on the Key Stage 2 Curriculum that covers children between the ages of 7 and 11 years.

Calcutta Public School

Calcutta Public School is an all-grade primary, secondary and higher secondary school providing education from L.N (lower nursery) to ISC (class -12) according to the national curriculum of the Council for Indian School Certificate Exams, New Delhi.

Carl B. Allendoerfer

Allendoerfer is also known as a proponent of the New Math movement in the 1950s and 1960s, which sought to improve American primary and secondary mathematics education by teaching abstract concepts like set theory early in the curriculum.

Charles Beck

He taught physical education classes with a curriculum modeled after Jahn's system, and translated Jahn's 1816 work Deutsche Turnkunst into English as Treatise on Gymnasticks, taken chiefly from the German of F. L. Jahn.

Columba Catholic College

The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.

Creation and evolution in public education in the United States

Christine Comer, the Director of Science Curriculum for Texas, resigned after being placed on administrative leave for a breach of Texas Education Agency policy, which required a neutral stance regarding ID and evolution.

David R. Ross

At the age of about 15, he became interested in the novels of Nigel Tranter, that inspired him to grow an interest in the history of Scotland, as he realised that the history curriculum in British schools was told from an England-centric perspective that ignored (or nearly so) the individual histories of the other countries forming the United Kingdom.

Education in Scotland

In 2003, work began on an education reform program, to produce a new Curriculum for Excellence that would replace existing guidance on the school curriculum.

Jacqueline Maria Dias

Dias has been a member of the team that set up the BScN curriculum for Al-Baath University in Syria.

Jeanne Mujawamariya

Several MPs on the commission criticized Mujawamariya and Joseph Murekeraho, Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, for taking insufficient punitive action against teachers and curriculum developers who were disseminating anti-Tutsi sentiments in schools.

Justus Velsius

Velsius and his colleague Jakob Leichius, who was instrumental in establishing the Gymnasium Tricoronatum, drafted guidelines for a curriculum of eight grades, similar to Sturm’s humanistic curriculum in Strasbourg.

King Henry VIII School Abergavenny

The school at this time was supposed to be a grammar school taking pupils from all over North Monmouthshire with a curriculum of Latin, English, History, Geography, French, Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry and Chemistry.

Lancaster County Christian School

Lancaster County Christian School's faith-based curriculum includes the inerrancy of the Bible, the triune nature of God, creationism, the divinity and virgin birth of Jesus Christ, a sola fide soteriology, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Little Angels' English Higher Secondary School

The school is the only one in the region following the X-std ICSE and XII-std CISCE's national curriculum.

Lizzette Reynolds

In October 2007, Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, sent an email to a list of addressees including Christine Comer, then Director of Science in the curriculum division of the Texas Education Agency.

M. Sarngadharan

He has also served in the Curriculum Committee for VHSE under the Chairmanship of Minister For Education, and as Government Administrator of the world famous Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham Trust, Sivagiri originally found by Sri Narayana Guru, the great saint.

Mathnasium

The curriculum is based around the Mathnasium Method, a proprietary system that was developed over 35 years by co-founder Lawrence Martinek.

Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i

After his death, reports continued to surface of changes in curriculum and power struggles at the Dar al-Hadith, though these rumors were dispelled a few years later by contemporary Muslim scholar Rabee Al-Madkhali.

Nagoya Gakuin University

With a curriculum focusing on Business and Economics, as well as Foreign Studies and Human Health, Nagoya Gakuin University awards degrees at the bachelor's, masters, and Doctor of Philosophy levels.

New Tech High School, Coppell

The school uses the New Tech curriculum pioneered by New Technology High School in California.

Nicolas Vérin

Frédéric Durieux, Hans-Peter Kunz) and teaching several courses of Computer Music (for the Doctorate Program of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and IRCAM Computer Music Curriculum) as well as participating in the beta-testing of Miller Puckette's Max programming language.

Norwegian International School

The decision to change to an English curriculum was made, and in 1994 The Norwegian School and opened its doors to students from different national backgrounds.

Our Lady of Victory Catholic School

The recognition came from the teachings of Deacon David Jones, whose 5th grade art class curriculum that school year was based on the works of noted artist Bob Ross, host of the American PBS television show The Joy of Painting.

Pattern language

Since the original publications, thinking in terms of patterns and pattern languages has been applied to other fields, including software design, user interface design, classroom curriculum, and social change.

Patterns of Conflict

This led to the instructor at the time, Michael Wyly, and Boyd changing the curriculum, with the blessing of General Trainor.

Peer Health Exchange

The New York University undergraduate volunteers teach the PHE health curriculum to teenagers in five New York City, NY high schools: East Side Community High School, Manhattan Village Academy, Marta Valle Model School, and University Neighborhood High School, and the Urban Assembly School of Government and Law.

Pennco Tech

The engine-focused curriculum of the Diesel/Truck Technology course examines and rebuilding techniques and troubleshooting practices for engine blocks, blowers and turbochargers on Cummins, Volvo, Caterpillar, Detroit, Penta and International Harvester engines.

Rasayani

P.R.I.A and HOC follow the curriculum prescribed by Maharshtra State Board and J.H. Ambani follows the C.B.S.E board.

Roberto Noble

Born to privilege in the city of La Plata, Roberto Noble developed a socialist ideology as an adolescent, having already earned some renown by 1918 agitating for the movement to reform Argentina's university system, whose curriculum had hitherto been largely dictated by conservative Catholics.

Rod Paige

As a trustee and an officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) from 1989 to 1994, Paige coauthored the board's 'A Declaration of Beliefs and Visions', a statement of purpose and goals for the school district that called for fundamental reform through decentralization, a focus on instruction, accountability at all levels, and development of a core curriculum.

Sacred Heart College, Geelong

Established in 1860 by the Sisters of Mercy, the school quickly became recognised as a high class education establishment, with a liberal, comprehensive curriculum.

Schnepfenthal Salzmann School

The curriculum borrowed ideas from John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and especially Johann Bernhard Basedow, the founder of the first Philanthropinum, a progressive experimental school in Dessau.

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Michael Apple (1982, 1986) examined the hidden curriculum and concludes teachers are being proletarianised as the profession is de-skilled through the standardised curriculum.

Somerset, Tasmania

The school follows the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum and is for students from kinder to grade 12.

Southridge School

Southridge School has a typical K-12 curriculum, including for the Senior school students: Physics, Chemistry and Biology (taught with British Columbia standards), and AP courses in these fields as well as in History, Literature and Calculus.

Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

Tagum City National High School

Tagum City National High School has many clubs in support of its curriculum program, most notably the renowned TCNHS Dance Theater Guild (DTG), the Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs in the Philippines (PSYSC-TCNHS) Chapter, the Visual Arts Guild (VAG), the TCNHS Tinig Ensemble, and the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and Girl Scouts of the Philippines - TCNHS Chapter.

Texas Education Agency

For example, the proposed curriculum would downplay Thomas Jefferson's emphasis on the separation of church and state (outlined in his Letter to Danbury Baptists), and would include a greater emphasis on the importance of religion to the founding fathers.

University of the Philippines College of Medicine

The U.P. College of Medicine has a seven-year medical curriculum, the Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine (INTARMED) Program, ultimately leading to the degree of doctor of medicine (M.D.).

Wellington Chen

Originally appointed by Governor George Pataki as a board member of the City University of New York, Chen also engaged in discussions by CUNY leaders on their immigrant pasts on CUNY's A Nation of Immigrants Curriculum with notable speakers as Cuba Eduardi Marti, Jamaica Marcia Keizs and Hugo Morales.

Wichita Northeast Magnet High School

The curriculum is driven by community service and legal research in partnership with the Wichita Bar Association, the City of Wichita, United Way, Wichita Festivals, Inc. and many generous individual mentors.

Yale Seminar

The National Science Foundation had sponsored science curriculum development in the late 1950s.


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