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secondary school curriculum  

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  • The secondary school curriculum was a definitive priority in the emergence and development of the field of curriculum studies in the United States. From the opening decades of the 20th century into the 1970s, the task of generating a viable theory of secondary education for a democratic society occupied a central place in the work of curriculum scholars. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Secondary School Curriculum]

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