We are giving schools more freedom over the curriculum and teaching - not less.
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Sweden has made mandatory by law and national curriculum the teaching and learning of sustainable development at various levels within the education system.
To date, 41 of the 50 states have dropped it from their teaching curriculum.
"The curriculum was simply teaching children how to use technology, not how to make technology, " Livingstone told me.
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Indeed, its proposals would probably mean more testing, but in a form that covers the full range of the curriculum, that does not bring high-stakes judgements for schools and teacher, and that neither narrows the curriculum nor constrains teaching.
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They built a business called Exploration Nation around Enzo and his friends learning and teaching STEM curriculum on-line.
It leads to a narrowing of the curriculum and a widespread teaching-to-the-test mentality that is little better than teaching by rote.
Our reforms: tougher discipline, more rigorous exams, more freedom for headteachers, a more demanding curriculum and higher quality teaching, will drive up standards so our pupils have a first-class education that matches the best in the world.
Today, UNESCO continues to be a leader in the development of national media literacy policies, media literacy teaching resources and curriculum.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the decision to fund development of the new curriculum should help revitalise maths teaching in schools and colleges.
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The idea was to tie teachers to teaching the national curriculum and to give parents an indication of the relative success of schools.
It will be independent of Cornwall Council, with the freedom to choose its own teaching hours, curriculum and how to spend its money.
In teaching mainstream national curriculum subjects, the academy emphasises the need to study more broadly, while enabling the children to get further ahead of their contemporaries.
More are to open, bringing their number to 400, but they will have to follow the national curriculum (although innovation in teaching was an aim of the programme).
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He, and others, think the gains from SATs at any age are not worth the costs, which include a narrowing of the primary curriculum and ever-increasing teaching to the test.
But placing too much faith in tests will ultimately be self-defeating, creating a more narrow curriculum and a culture of teaching to the test that goes against the higher ideals of our public education system.
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Lemon serves as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College, teaching and participating in curriculum designed around new media.
They have also urged Mr Aznar, in vain, to make a place for religious, rather than just ethical, teaching in the national curriculum.
Starting in September 2012, the experts will also evaluate the teaching practices of the current curriculum, using two valid and reliable questionnaires developed for this purpose.
Classrooms and labs for K-12 and higher education should have modern, rock-solid technology, but it needs to be coupled with effective professional development, sound teaching strategies and a rigorous curriculum.
Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.
Teaching bodies criticised the list as being against the principals of Curriculum for Excellence, which was supposed to allow teachers a free hand to choose their teaching materials.
The government said it was looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review.
That is why we are looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review to ensure that pupils are engaged and inspired by the subject.
Schools would also be permitted to offer subjects outside the National Curriculum, and given funds to back up the teaching of those subjects.
Mr Gray pressed the first minister on the Curriculum for Excellence less than a week after two teaching unions revealed they could be set to take industrial action.
Teaching to a test not only narrows the curriculum, it means that teachers prepare students specifically for the test.
Secondly, Claire Redfarn is correct when she says that the standard of music teaching (and, more importantly, the curriculum) is woeful.
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