At the moment, the Know Opportunity curriculum is being taught at four high schools in the Redding, California, area.
Science enthusiast Johnny Ball criticised the national curriculum for being too "thin" and he said lessons were "boring gifted children very early".
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This curriculum is being piloted at over 50 institutions, including business schools at Stanford, Duke, INSEAD, and MIT, according to the Giving Voice to Values website.
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The national curriculum is currently being reviewed, with the first sections of the new version scheduled to come into force in September 2013.
But the National Union of Teachers said it was "not entirely sure" why the task group's report was necessary as a full review of the National Curriculum is currently being carried out.
New approaches - based on tests assessing whether children meet a particular national curriculum level - were being piloted, he added.
Further up the road, another education quango, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, is also being abolished.
In America, a similar study suggested chess improved children's reading and writing skills, and led to chess being placed on the curriculum in New Jersey.
"Too many teachers lacked expertise in teaching sensitive and controversial issues, which resulted in some topics such as sexuality, mental health and domestic violence being omitted from the curriculum, " it says.
Teaching bodies criticised the list as being against the principals of Curriculum for Excellence, which was supposed to allow teachers a free hand to choose their teaching materials.
How much is down to low priority that the language has in some English-medium schools, despite being a compulsory part of the curriculum?
The programme has been introduced into schools in all participating countries and, in order to guarantee its durability, is currently being officially integrated into the educational curriculum in some pilot countries.
In a statement, the Department for Education said it agreed with Microsoft and that was why the "out-dated ICT curriculum" was scrapped last year, with computer science now being taught in schools.
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However, because college and career readiness overwhelmingly focuses on complex texts outside of literature, these standards also ensure students are being prepared to read, write, and research across the curriculum, including in history and science.
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Taking this into consideration, the comprehensive nature of the programme can be said to transcend a merely academic and vocationally focussed curriculum to accommodate a broader field of learning directed at the development of the human being as a whole.
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