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Article: NCLB, school-based instructional policy and decision-making: a proposed research agenda.(No Child Left Behind Act of 2001)
- Article from:
- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The delivered curriculum, or the curriculum the students actually experience has always been a function of teacher decision making. Since the inception of high stakes accountability, the curricula to which students are exposed have become a focal point of school reform efforts. This article argues that the null curriculum is expanding in ways that are a function of educators' paradigmatic perspectives and that these perspectives are actually manifestations of school policy in the quest for comprehensive school reform. The actual or delivered curriculum is a function of several factors including social class, sex, prior academic performance, and teachers' instructional ...