Sentences with phrase «narrowly focused curriculum»
«The Government has consistently sought to portray GCSEs as «broken» and «dumbed down» qualifications in order to push through its vision of an elitist, narrowly focused curriculum and qualifications system which risks failing to meet the needs of the majority of young people.
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Commenting on the plans, Paul Davies, Head of Policy at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) said: «While it's great to see a big focus on science subjects in the new EBacc, we are concerned that the plans to narrowly prescribe the curriculum in this way will effectively drive subjects like design & technology (D&T), as well as creative and artistic subjects, from the curriculum.
To improve executive functions, focusing narrowly on them may not be as effective as also addressing emotional and social development (as do curricula that improve executive functions) and physical development (shown by positive effects of aerobics, martial arts, and yoga).
For example, the CCSS do not address an exploratory curriculum as described by TWB because the CCSS are too narrowly focused.
In response to the negative impact on English Learners from over 10 years of «drill and kill», narrowly focused reading and math curricula and limited access to social science, science and the arts, Californians Together has issued a policy brief to delineate research - based teaching practices with policy recommendations for accelerating the language development and academic growth of English Learners.
In our Computer Programming blog post this week, Reeza Awoodun, Sherston's customer champion, explains why we are in danger of creating a future ICT curriculum programme that is too narrowly focused and will alienate some children...