Guiding Curriculum Development: The Need to Return to Local Control

by M. Scott Norton

Book Overview

Top-down mandates concerning the curriculum of the school leave no room for program creativity and program commitment. Yet principals and teachers are held accountable for student achievement results. Constitutionally, powers not granted to the United States are reserved to the States or to the people.

The book's primary purposes center on the need for placing the responsibility for determining student curriculum and academic achievement the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475827989
• ISBN13: 9781475827989
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"