Time for Curriculum: How School Board Members Should Think About Curriculum, What School Board Members Should Do About Curriculum

By Henry M. Brickell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931028981
• ISBN13: 9780931028984
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Natl School Board Assn
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

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Although this book was written for members of local boards of education, perhaps because of that, it is highly readable and can be understood by members of the general public. The thrust of the book is a plan for monitoring all subjects taught in your local school system. The plan explains how to set up a monitoring system and how to use it to find out if kids are really learning what the school system and the community intend them to learn. It lays out some of the arguments that might be made about why this particular plan is not a good one or will not work. Then it provides excellent replies to these arguments. The book's content is simply stated and it is clear. If more local boards of education put this plan in place there would be less need for state curriculum mandates. This plan provides a means toward local control of education, with accountablility to the kids and the public.