Common core standards can be helpful if we also have a common core of resources to which each school and student is entitled.
After 16 there is no common core of subjects that everyone studies.
Nevertheless, while dialects of the same language differ, they still possess a common core of features.
Imagine, suggests Mr Lamers, that France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Austria built a "common core" of a European army.
There was a common core of subjects plus electives in grades 10 and 11, but all subjects were oriented to the pupil's major area of study.
His successors should design a coherent curriculum for 14- to 19-year-olds, with academic, technical, creative and vocational programmes offered around a common core of maths, literacy and IT skills.
The routes are to include a two-year "common core" of courses, including English and maths, although the Sainsbury report wants to end the government's compulsory resitting of those subjects for students who failed them at GCSE level.
For performers and audience alike, the whole Reverend Billy experience, born in parody, was becoming less and less distinguishable from an actual church service -- a reaffirmation, in a ritualistic setting, of a common core of spiritual values.
The common core of historically minded Bayesian views consists in the following four theses.
M is standardly viewed as embodying the common core of any mereological theory.
He says it is important for all youngsters to learn a common core of knowledge.
