curriculum reform

collocation in English

meaningsofcurriculumandreform

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curriculum
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈrɪk.jə.ləm/us
/kəˈrɪk.jə.ləm/
the subjects studied in a school, college, etc. and what each ...
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reform
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈfɔːm/us
/rɪˈfɔːrm/
an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure ...
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(Definition ofcurriculumandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Its place in the order of things is much as it was at the inception of the programme ofcurriculumreformthat took place in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The obvious and desirable option of propercurriculumreformto introduce a technical element for all pupils has been ignored.
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At that time the proposal for this curriculum study group andcurriculumreformwas associated in the minds of many people with the same centralisation tendencies.
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If we can devise ways and means of aidingcurriculumreform, making it more sensitive to changes in society, we should do this and not discourage it.
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Coordinates research projects, training andcurriculumreformin linguistics, culture, literature and education.
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In addition, inservice training expanded rapidly in response to thecurriculumreformmovements of the 1960s.
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This militancy achieved its peak in the 1970s when teachers won salaries equivalent to state parliament backbenchers, a massive and systemic initiative for building improvements, and massivecurriculumreform.
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So, have both earlier and more recent curriculum reforms failed?
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Romberg has a long history of leadership of mathematicscurriculumreform.
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The generally poor performance of secondary schools on testing must be—and will be—addressed if the wider benefits of the curriculum reforms are to be secured.
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Morale is low and teachers are introducing curriculum reforms with only a modest increase in resources.
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She did not mention the tragedy of other major curriculum reforms that have not been well implemented.
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The national curriculum reforms have been widely welcomed, and we do not want to lose the momentum of that progress.
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These curriculum reforms will present secondary intermediate schools with an unprecedented opportunity to achieve increased status and, in the opinion of many of us, long-overdue public esteem.
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