Critics of the curriculum have likened it to brainwashing.
Efforts to improve the curriculum have faltered, and principals have quit.
Even some previously staunch advocates of a rigid core curriculum have moderated their views.
Campaigns to have financial education added to the school curriculum have been running for years.
The problems inherent in the Saudi curriculum have long been ignored by the American government and media.
The paper notes that recent changes to the national curriculum have increased the demands placed upon reception class teaching.
The Rose proposals for the primary curriculum have disappeared in the pre-election legislative wash-up, leaving schools confused and frustrated.
The long-awaited draft proposals for the revised primary curriculum have provoked some predictable outcries about a back to the 50s agenda denying teachers autonomy.
While new Ofsted targets and changes to the curriculum have put added pressure on teachers, there are still many reasons to join the profession.
We can be pleased with how aspects of the curriculum have developed as a result of the hard work of carers and teachers.
Recent changes to the school curriculum have introduced the teaching of computer science at GCSE and A-level – with an emphasis on coding – which should reap significant benefits.
