Cocurriculum

Curriculum and cocurriculum have become more and more integral as high schools have moved forward to the kind of educational program that makes sense to youth and is likely to hold them in school.

There is faith that the issue will yield to the concerted efforts of principled, committed educators — both those responsible for the curricula and those responsible for the cocurricula.

Allowing curriculums, cocurriculums, and services to be determined by political pressure rather than academic need is bad policy, particularly in hard financial times.

This overview does not assume to do justice to all work on CI, but given the limitations that exist in the implementation of such a comprehensive framework, the focus here is on cocurriculum through an alternative but complementary framework.