Comments on: Revolution http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/10/revolution.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Jon http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/10/revolution.html/comment-page-1#comment-58 Jon Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:42:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2007/10/revolution.html#comment-58 Whatever one thinks about ED Hirsch (and I generally don't agree with him) I do think he was nearly right about needing a national curriculum. National or common outcomes are *the* right idea.<br/><br/>Of course, having been involved in working with teachers within my own school and from area schools, the outcomes would be a good beginning, but just that: a beginning. Translating those outcomes into curriculum and into classroom practice presents a whole other challenge. But, I've always thought that you can never solve problems; you can only trade one set for another and hope you're trading up. I think this would be trading up from the mess we have now. Whatever one thinks about ED Hirsch (and I generally don’t agree with him) I do think he was nearly right about needing a national curriculum. National or common outcomes are *the* right idea.

Of course, having been involved in working with teachers within my own school and from area schools, the outcomes would be a good beginning, but just that: a beginning. Translating those outcomes into curriculum and into classroom practice presents a whole other challenge. But, I’ve always thought that you can never solve problems; you can only trade one set for another and hope you’re trading up. I think this would be trading up from the mess we have now.

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