Policy Is Not Enough: Language and the Interpretation of State Standards

摘要: Words have no inherent meaning. Instead, they signify ideas or actions ascribed to them by communities, and meanings for specific words often vary across those communities. that carry specialized in one community can be interpreted differently another, particularly where individuals the second little access dialogues first, when forces compete assign meaning key words. Observations of district’s mathematics curriculum writing committee suggested a disconnect this sort occurred along policymaker/teacher divide state. Where state standards used like “construct” “concept” imply certain teaching methods, teachers reading these documents imputed more local, sometimes conventional, definitions As result, lost their force. This article describes analyzes work state-local policy reconciliation as it committee, appraises that...