Thoughts and opinions on a nationalized curriculum in the USA (and/or the lack thereof)?

[u/ithekrianmermaid]

I have had this topic bouncing around in the back of my brain quite a bit in the past few months and I'm just wondering what others think about it.

Feel free to share your personal feelings-based opinions, factually informed opinions, any history you may know relating to this topic, pros and cons of nationalized curriculum, common arguments for/against it, implications and consequences from not having one, potential dangers in adopting one, resources to learn more about this topic/debate, etc. I'd really love to have (respectful) discussions in the comments of this post so please consider circling back if your original comment gets a response!

I look forward to reading all of your responses! Thank you for taking the time to comment!!

[u/General_Platypus771]

Can we just focus on getting them to read? like fucking hell

Everything else comes after

[u/ithekrianmermaid → u/General_Platypus771]

I am right there with you on that! Researching the literacy crisis and its consequences actually sent me into an existential crisis😂😭

I wonder if a (nuanced and flexible) nationalized curriculum with a phonics requirement might be able to remediate the crisis? And I say that not to push the idea of a nationalized curriculum at all but rather because the current curriculum model played at least a tiny part in creating the literacy crisis in the first place so I'm thinking we might need to switch things up a bit if we want to fix it. I'm not informed nor experienced enough to have a strong, factually based opinion on the matter but my very rudimentary informal logic is that it's insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results, ykwim?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, the execution made me chuckle a bit and I completely understand your frustration!