That will certainly put the cat amongst the curriculum pigeons. Unfortunately, with the way school are under-resourced and are set up it is difficult to cater for all abilities. Streaming has been tried and found wanting. No, I don't have an answer but I bet Prof. McGaw doesn't have one either.
He is quoted as saying, "Any plans to develop a nationally consistent curriculum could fail without additional resources for schools." I think he used the wrong word. It should be 'will' not 'could'. If it is like every other initiative, such as VELS, we'll get plenty of web sites to look through, as if we have nothing else or better to do but spend hours trawling through the Internet. Occasionally, we get bored to death by departmental apparatchiks doing their best to earn their bonuses. Somebody needs to teach bureaucrats how to produce a PowerPoint presentation. The coal face is not the place to be.
In the science area, schools have been gradually getting further behind in the technological area. Last year, for the first time in about 40 years as far as I can remember, money was actually allocated to schools to buy resources to help bring schools up-to-date. It wasn't enough and let's hope it's not another 40 years before it is done again.
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