Sentences with phrase «narrowing curriculum options»

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

Not exact matches

Instead of letting each teacher in each school come up with his or her own curriculum and approach, resulting in an incoherent and in some cases ineffective system of instruction, Payzant gradually narrowed the range of options for schools and teachers to materials and teaching strategies that he and his teams of coaches thought worked best for Boston students.

He also pushed for a gradual narrowing of curriculum options for most schools.

This is a substantial narrowing of the curriculum and is already having a serious impact on the learning and career options open to students.»

Critics charge that school - to - work programs displace basic skills and academic instruction, are impractical and wasteful, invade family privacy, narrow student options, promote societal change (by reducing ability grouping, integrating reshaping traditional gender roles, etc.), and allow the national government to shape school curricula and children's futures.