ABSTRACT

A good teacher, no matter how good they are, is still guided by the curriculum that he is teaching within. We can make no substantive change in education without radical change in the curriculum. This is easy to say but difficult to do. Schools don't typically erase their curricula. There are too many vested interests in what is already there. The teachers are familiar with it, students expect it, states require it, testing services test it, publishers publish it, and, perhaps most important, we have all experienced it and have come to accept it. Schools are armored against change. But in the last few years, a chink has appeared in that armor. It may be possible to exploit it. That chink is the Internet.