Sentence examples for challenging curriculum from inspiring English sources

JoJo, a new student in circus school, faces a challenging curriculum that includes juggling, tightrope walking and perhaps even a few dreaded lessons in some tricky midair trapeze maneuvers, which she calls those "flippy things".

In many schools, black children's poor performance may have nothing to do with these demographic confoundings, but result from unfocused school leadership, less adequate teachers, less access to challenging curriculum, poor disciplinary climate or placement in separate classes that warehouse low achievers.

Public Agenda's finding that standardized test preparation does not force 75percentt of students to neglect "other classroom work" corresponds to teachers' complaints that they have had to abandon challenging curriculum projects to make time for test preparation ("Boycotts and a Bill Protest Mandatory State Tests," Education page, March 6).

These first generation Chinese immigrants demonstrated high motivation when faced with challenging curriculum and valued demanding teachers (Kaufman 2004; Zhou et al. 2003).

Most of us hate the idea that a child gets anything less than an enriched, challenging curriculum because he or she happens to live in Mississippi instead of Minnesota.

The true indicators of progress will be challenging curriculum, informed, skilled and passionate teachers, a school culture of caring and high expectations, and engaged students thinking creatively, collaboratively and critically.

Rather, Kirn's lack of preparation for rigorous work — and that of thousands of other students — may be attributed to the paucity of challenging curriculums and demanding teachers in the nation's high schools.

A four-part series in The Ann Arbor News is painting an unflattering portrait of an athletic department that, according to the series, funnels some athletes into less-challenging curriculums to keep them eligible.

But even these measures cannot keep pace with the demands of incoming students, who are challenging the curriculum much as gay activists did in the '80s and '90s.

Examples of these strategies include LGBTQ inclusive curriculum, challenging rigid gender binaries in school life and curriculum, attention to issues of sexism and sexual harassment, and acknowledging diverse family structures.

As the Texas Equity Center points out in its report Money Still Matters!, wealthy parents "have poured two and three times as much money into school budget to create truly exemplary schools" that include high-quality teachers, small class sizes, diverse opportunities to learn, challenging expectations and curriculum, technology, and engaging extracurricular programs.