Educational Research Supporting the Curriculum Web

I didn't realize until yesterday (from a member of the bargaining team) that the Curriculum Web has no known Educational Research to back its format or implementation restrictions. Do the parents & community know this? If I was a BSD parent, (which I was from 1996-2000), I'd be up at ESD demanding that the web be used only an "idea well" from which we use the end result, use ideas we feel will reach our students, and use our judgement and creativity on anything else. I thought the kind of curriculum delivery demands we are currently under were only used in totalitarian situations. aslongasittakes

Indeed!

Didn't Bellevue reach its peak of national recognition pre-curriculum web? Seems to me that any statistician could take the data and prove that the curriculum web is in fact a detriment to student learning.

Most depts have gone from well-researched texts, programs, and supplements to a "curriculum" that posts any old lesson without editing. Who is checking these? The worst are World Languages because the lessons have SO MANY typos. It's embarrassing!!! Yes, we teachers are clearly capable of lesson writing--the district is having us do it--but we are constantly learning, changing, and adapting to our students' needs. This is not best practice.