They have a strong, standard curriculum and lots of flexibility in how to teach.

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Already, some sixth forms offer "master classes" for some bright secondary pupils, stretching them further than the standard curriculum.

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He has been trying to create a standard curriculum for Spanish history throughout Spain, even among Catalans and Basques.

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The course is a standard and nonstandard statistic curriculum but the project approach shows students how they can apply statistics to their own research projects.

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But pi is a celebrity numerical phenomena it is simple and basic enough to be a part of the standard sixth-grade math curriculum, and yet so mysteriously complex that all the supercomputers in the world will never find its last digit.

WSJ: We Can All Have a Slice of Pi | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten

Secondly, Claire Redfarn is correct when she says that the standard of music teaching (and, more importantly, the curriculum) is woeful.

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