Sentences with phrase «local control of curriculum»

And when that happens, the concept of local control of the curriculum is lost.

Language cares even less about local control of curriculum.

Common Core advocates continue to insist that Common Core does not usurp local control of curriculum, but in practice high - stakes tests keyed to the Common Core standards ensure that curriculum will follow.

The Lakeland School Board and Williamson County School Board in Tennessee both passed resolutions that called for ending use of the Common Core and petitioning the state for local control of curriculum standards.

These do not include continuing to follow popular slogans about local control of curriculum and letting a thousand flowers bloom.

The policy implication, Hirsch writes, is that the United States needs a «coherent, specified grade - by - grade elementary curriculum,» not the «local control of curriculum and letting a hundred flowers bloom.»

American education remains deeply reluctant to do this, since it requires overthrowing any number of traditions and practices — from child - centered pedagogies, assumptions about student engagement, and other progressive education ideals, to local control of curriculum, the privileging of skills over content, and the movement toward mass customization of education.

«We're very alarmed about choice and local control of curriculum being taken away.»