Sentences with phrase «down curriculum reform»

I've previously called these the «dog whistles» of top - down curriculum reform, subtle signals that give local advocates license to promote unpopular positions on controversial issues.

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This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

«With top - down reforms the people selecting the standards, designing the tests, setting the cut - scores, devising consequences for performance, writing the curriculum, and picking the instructional methods have to get it just right... for many different kinds of kids who may need different approaches.

Together these strategies use the testing regime that is the main engine of corporate reform to extend the narrow standardization of curricula and scripted classroom practice that we've seen under No Child Left Behind, and to drill down even further into the fabric of schooling to transform the teaching profession and create a less experienced, less secure, less stable and less expensive professional staff.

Mr Gove wants to prescribe how history should be taught and to reform what he calls the «dumbed down» science curriculum.