"curriculums" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to a course of study, usually in a school or college. For example: "This college offers a variety of curriculums for its students."
What we really offer is two curriculums, one aligned to the exam, and another which is still aligned to the exam but based more on student and teacher interests".
De Koning says: "Changes in public behaviour patterns occurred on a national scale in Holland in the 1970s through public campaigns, school curriculums, and incentives led by the government.
Today not counting the children who attend special "magnet schools" with specialised curriculums— more than 40% of Charlotte's black children and 23% of its white children are carried by bus past their nearest school.
Television channels wrap up each week at the tribunal, and programmes reuniting families separated by decades of war are popular.School curriculums now teach the Khmer Rouge era, and as Craig Etcheson, a former chief investigator for the prosecution, points out, parents are no longer afraid to talk to their children about the horrors that took place when the Maoists came to power.
Western Länder began shortening the Gymnasium course, clearing out their curriculums and controlling their schools' output through state-wide exams.
And school curriculums are under constant pressure from meddlesome governments.The last recommendation sparking children's interest in the subject with appealing science-based activities comes with a caveat: a keen interest in science does not always mean being good at it.
Officials admit that this is an ideological project, but so are all education curriculums, they say.Already, according to the education ministry, 150,000 teachers have taken part in courses to prepare them for the new "Bolivarian Education System", recently defined by the president as "red, very red".
Of these, six, concentrated in the north-east, require much more, such as the use of approved curriculums or home visits by bureaucrats.
Enforcement of tough anti-discrimination laws, Roma-friendly curriculums in schools, cultural self-esteem, positive discrimination in both officialdom and private business are the necessary ingredients for change, say the politically correct.But that is not the whole story.
They have dispensed with the machinery of educational accountability such as detailed national curriculums, school inspections, high-stakes examinations and school vouchers.
Teachers are free to design their own curriculums and develop their own tests.
