Sentences with phrase «cafeteria style curriculum»
A Nation at Risk decried the «cafeteria style curriculum» of American high schools, rejecting curricular differentiation, the animating idea of Cardinal Principles.
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A chief cause of the nation's educational decline, the report ventured, was the «cafeteria - style curriculum» that allowed students to pursue a diffuse and unchallenging course of study.
A Nation at Risk argued that much of America's decline in academic achievement could be traced to the «cafeteria - style curriculum» or «curricular smorgasbord» offered to high - school students.
In effect, we have a cafeteria - style curriculum in which the appetizers and desserts can easily be mistaken for the main course.»
A Nation at Risk found that an «incoherent, outdated patchwork quilt» of classroom learning led to an increasing number of students who were subjected to a «cafeteria - style curriculum» that diluted the course material and allowed them to advance through their schooling with minimal effort.