In this week’s Education Week, Bernard Fryshmam writes about the need to review and reform curriculum, particulalry high school curriculum. With so many students not graduating (see Detroit stats) how can we not act? But how? That, of course, is the difficult part.
To begin, we must not treat curriculum as dogma, writes Fryshman. We need to adapt lessons to the times and makes sure it is compelling to the students who must take the material and make it their own. This, as this community knows, is a topic that Pam Moran frequently discusses in her Viewpoint.
My challenge is to take this approach and infuse it into the federal education policy. Sure, NCLB is a big part of it- but the grant process (the idea incubating process) must promote this and ED should use its leverage for more productive outcomes, as opposed to just fiscal and programmatic oversite.
I need to simmer these ideas more, but I am also looking for help to develop them from a legislative perspective. Any ideas out there?
(This was hammered out on my iPhone. Thumbs tired. Where is the voice to text recognition?)
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