LearningtoTeachNothinginParticular


 * Learning to Teach Nothing in Particular:**
 * A Uniquely American Education Dilema**
 * "no common standards against which teachers' performance could be judged and no inspections of their performance in light of such standards" p.1
 * "because local control and weak government were the foundations of U.S. public education, most of our school systems never developed the common instruments that are found in many national school systems. These include common curriculum or curriculum frameworks, common examinations tied to the curriculum, teacher education grounded in learning to teach the curriculum that students are to learn, and a teaching force whose members succeeded in those curriculum-based exams as students, among other things. Teachers who work with such infrastructure have instruments that they can use to set academic tasks tied to curriculum and assessment." p. 1-2
 * "Given a common curriculum and teacher education grounded in the curriculum, it is possible to devise standards of teaching quality that are referenced to teaching that curriculum" p. 2
 * "absent a common curriculum, teachers-in-training could not learn how to teach it, let alone how to teach it well" p. 2
 * "absent guidance from an established curriculum, or even, until very recently, standards or curriculum frameworks, publishers have had incentives to produce texts that cover anything that might be taight in a given subject and grade" p. 2