Sentences with phrase «control over textbooks»

Assessment is important in driving curriculum, and the evolution of national assessment developed through federal sponsorship will undermine state control over textbooks, curricular stresses, and assessment costs

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I think that a lot of educators over the past few years have tried to find a curriculum or a textbook that is somehow going to help kids become more perseverant and more self - controlled.

Some critics question whether a digital textbook initiative will work, citing lack of quality control over factual information and no comprehensive plan for the future.

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

Today, government officials, along with leaders of corporations, foundations, universities, and other institutions, determine what all students «need» to know, and this becomes educational policy, expressed in standards, state - mandated textbooks, high stakes testing, and relentless control over teaching and learning.»

Schools at every level were quick to reject digital textbooks because they felt like they'd lost control over what materials were used in the classroom, as though letting students use an ebook on a tablet would become a free - for - all of homemade, unvetted resources.