Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

core curriculum

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: core cur-ricu-lum
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.

Example Sentences

"The senior high school, if free to concentrate on intensive specialized courses and a core curriculum of constants, will consummate the socially integrating influences of the elementary school."
"Thus, the undergraduate core curriculum is a college's foundational education, a developing lens that effectively focuses issues of whatever sort and projects them, so focused, onto a community screen as conventional wisdom."
"Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum."

Inflected Forms

core curricula (plural) core curriculums (plural)

Phrases

core course

Frequently Paired Words

core course

Questions

What does core curriculum mean?: The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.

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