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But the core of the reforms, says Mr Rau, the education minister, are the new curriculums, which give each school a fair amount of autonomy.
Three-year curriculums, which might involve two full summers of study with short breaks between terms, would increase the number of students who can be accommodated during a four-year period, and reduce institutional costs per student.
The mayor's overhaul, called Children First, includes parts that cannot be fully assessed for months if not years, like a training academy for new principals and the new curriculums, which will be judged largely by standardized testing.
His comments focused on steps the Palestinians could take to improve their situation, including changing the elementary and secondary school curriculums, which is being done now, and building a Palestinian national museum and library, which has not been done.
The reforms on which their hopes hinged, many undertaken during the last decade, included the efforts of school districts to bring uniformity and coherence to science and math curriculums, which vary widely with each district, and to raise standards.
Hank Kepner, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, said that most schools choose among prepackaged math curriculums, which have to be expansive enough to meet wide-ranging standards for every state, and that he had not heard of another district trying to write its own.
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They teach a science and history curriculum which mainly emphasises the achievements of remarkable men.
Callanan points to the narrow focus of the curriculum, which fails to promote curiosity and questioning.
Critics say the curriculum, which is known as balanced literacy, is too open-ended and unstructured.
"We have a curriculum which practically condemns kids to teaching for the test," she said.
The Chinese government retains tight control over the curriculum, which creates tricky problems for British educators.
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