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History
What has come be to known as the expanded core curriculum
was first described by Philip Hatlen in the late 1970s in the
coursework that he taught at San Francisco State University. After
listing the areas of the general education curriculum that were
targeted for mastery by all students (e.g., reading, social studies,
mathematics, etc.), he would have students generate a second list
that captured the additional areas of instruction needed by students
with visual impairments, then provide a rationale supporting the
concept that students must master both curricula—the general
education curriculum plus the curriculum that was necessary to
meet their unique educational needs and that this latter curriculum
was the primary instructional focus of teachers of students with
visual impairments.
Hatlen's conceptualization gained widespread support among
professionals in California and in 1986, the State Department of
Education published guidelines for programs for students with visual
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