Calif. School Board Infusing Pedagogy Into Frameworks

By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo

After years of telling teachers what to teach, state education officials in California are edging toward telling them how to teach some subjects.

Though the state school board, not surprisingly, is beginning with language arts, the plan to infuse more-specific teaching guidelines into frameworks documents is not expected to stop there.

Frameworks in other subjects, especially mathematics, will veer from their traditional course as primarily theoretical documents and suggest ways to teach the various principles outlined in the state's academic...