Coherence and commonality of curriculum, gained through
specifying core content, has decisive educational advantages over our vague, laissez faire curriculum arrangements.
Schools can not be sure of offering all students a sound base of general knowledge until the states
specify the core content of the early curriculum.
Not exact matches
But I was not involved in the Fordham review, which lauded the span of K — 12 EngageNY curricula, noting that «in general, alignment to the Common
Core State Standards is strong — and the materials go beyond the standards in
specifying important
content and skills for each year of instruction.»
Edmentum assimilates MAP assessment results with Study Island ®
content and instructional materials to create individualized learning paths for each student and helps K - 12 students master the
content specified in state and Common
Core standards.
The Common
Core adds no new math
content, but
specifies, through its Standards for Mathematical Practice, that understanding math means much more than producing correct answers.
In short, the Common
Core Standards do not provide curricular
content - presumably because their authors realized full well that if they had
specified content, few if any states would have agreed to adopt them.
On SC 29 / WG 11's specific technical points — First, SC 34 experts share a desire to
specify fully how
content within archives may be referenced, preferably using IRIs; secondly, on the question of moving the central directory, SC 34 experts expressed the view that the specification of the
core technology must maintain 100 % compatibility with exisiting archives, which precludes re-specifying where the central directory is placed in an archive.
By contrast, legal fundamentalists tend to believe that «law» — as a field of study, as a profession, as a social institution — has an essential meaning, a
core content, and distinctive institutional characteristics that may change slowly over time but at any given moment can be authoritatively
specified.