He says many,if not all, of the top American colleges once had a core curriculum a set of courses required for all students.

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Educator Martin Skelton co-wrote the International Primary Curriculum,or IPC.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

"It's a curriculum that helped Singapore math students skyrocket to number one by the 1990s and that's where they've stayed ever since."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

She's been an elementary school math teacher for almost 30 years, and says introducing this new curriculum has been an exciting experience.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

May Rihani,from the U.N.Girl's Education Initiative's Global Advisory Committee, gave an unlikely example from a "life skills" curriculum being used in Mali.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"The Islamic schools in North America, there are over 100 of them teaching the curriculum of the state."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

What Walls likes about the curriculum is that it relies more on pictures than on words.

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But since the St.John's curriculum aims to span almost all of Western culture, students study every branch of the liberal arts - including music.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

One group of elementary school math teachers gathered recently in Baker,Louisiana to learn more about Singapore Math, a curriculum they have recently begun to teach.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Singapore Math is a curriculum modeled on the way math is taught in Singapore.

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She said we need to modify outdated curriculum and improve instruction methods, such as teaching African children in their native languages, not simply in English or French.

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"We were taught fantastic curriculum and we were given the chance to go back to our schools and communities and share this with our professionals and students."

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Singapore Math expert Baldridge says this curriculum, which was introduced to the U.S.

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"We follow the standards of the state of Michigan curriculum.

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But in 1980,they started to develop their own math curriculum.

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Daniel Pipes, a conservative Mideast historian who runs the Middle East Forum and Campus Watch websites, he says a number of private Islamic schools in America offer their students a curriculum laced with extremist content.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12