Sentence examples for down curriculum from inspiring English sources

Studies show that struggling students fall farther behind when segregated: teachers lower their expectations (and water down curriculum), and the gulf separating the children from their peers widens.

Richard Miller, the president of the Olin College of Engineering in Wellesley, recalls a time that academically packed programs like engineering believed that teaching business and entrepreneurship would require watering down curriculum.

And this morning he will chair a discussion about volumes and by extension, the ways in which public school teachers in various subjects and various ways, have developed and thus handed down curriculum materials they have developed while participating in various programs, such as our Institute.

Ms Smith added that teachers could work with the slimmed down curriculum as they were "intelligent and creative".

Thanks to a dumbed down curriculum, today's school-leavers are not equipped with the basic mathematical skills to enable them to study sciences at undergraduate level.

At Champlain College, the upside down curriculum has students in their field of study in year one.

The No Child Left Behind law allowed each state to set its own academic standards, with the result that many have dumbed down curriculums and tests.

Those can be the demographic ingredients for a watered-down curriculum and the excuses for academic failure.

Combined with the introduction of programming, it is a big step forward from Labour's dumbed-down curriculum".

The pared-down curriculum does not offer honors classes or standard electives like chemistry, physics and multiple foreign languages (it has only first-year Spanish).

Like most big cities, New York has historically cheated the poorest public school students by giving them unqualified teachers, weak leadership and a watered-down curriculum.