RE: Question 2: Single curriculum

Adult Education and Competency Based curricula vs age-stratified youth warehouses:

This thought does seem to offer a better strategy for "single curriculum" planning. The "single" term would then refer to a consensus about competencies for specific levels and segments within a comprehensive curriculum (or "course of study" as it should be referred to in the Master Plan) that tags individual competencies for relevance within a number of different "tracks".

That way, students migrating between locations or changing tracks can explicitly find where they need to pick up and continue working in specific subjects.

But this sounds much too reasonable and student focused for public education in California, doesn't it? Aren't we more concerned with professional career paths and accountability that qualifies our schools for earmarked funding sources?

Changing to competency based standards in public education would threaten the very fabric of our institutional heritage. Socrates would enter this discussion forcefully with withering negative questions about how competency standards are inversely linked to inclusiveness and student confidence.

Unfortunately, this time around, Socrates is winning.

Phil