Schools have confirmed that despite ticking no single curriculum box, work like this has clear educational benefits.
(The students were probably too diverse, in terms of preparation and even language, to be helped by a single curriculum).
There are concerns, Mr. Moulin said, about the practicality of devising a single curriculum to fit the needs of such a large and diverse group of students.
Tests administered on the first day of summer school showed reading levels ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade, yet one teacher working with a single curriculum was expected to reach them all.
Alarmists tend to anticipate sexuality educators lasciviously telling five-year-olds about the finer points of shagging; yet I don't know of a single curriculum for younger children that echoes that bizarre expectation.
In Ethiopia, by contrast, the ministry of health has implemented a formalised recruitment and training structure with a single curriculum, as well as joint review mechanisms enabling all the different partners to identify areas for improvement and reaffirm priorities.
While a uniform curriculum will end the welter of instructional programs that has long hindered systemwide improvement, a bigger challenge still looms: making that single curriculum work in an endless variety of schools, including many where the factors conducive to its use are not as prevalent as at P.S. 172.
With hindsight it might be said that the cause of universities in the future would have been strengthened, as would the cause of the social sciences, had there come into existence, successfully, a single curriculum, undifferentiated by field, for the study of society.
Individual teacher interpretations of the same (formal) curriculum drive teachers to transform a single curriculum into multiple (taught) curricula through teacher and student experiences in different contexts.
To Broad, New York, with 1.1 million students, has the most exciting reform program in the U.S. The Broad Foundation helped cofund its $4.7 million Children First strategic review, which has led to cutting a 5,000-strong 5,000-strongaucentraln half, installing a single curriculum across 32 disparate fiefs and freeing schools of duties like overseeing bureaucracy serving food.
