ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the three narratives written by new English teachers. Standardization also expresses fear, on the other hand, that without standardization, teachers will not deliver the most effective resources to their students. Others besides George Hillocks are frustrated that teachers are not implementing the most effective curricular resources available. Unlike architects, however, curriculum designers are working with people, with agents. The chapter also examines many public school districts that have drafted and now require teachers to follow a common curriculum across schools. One of the most exciting, frustrating, and sometimes overlooked aspects of education research is that human students and human teachers are so infinitely complex and creative that they don't behave in predictable ways. This means that all sixth graders, whether they are in a Spanish-speaking class in an immersion school or an English-speaking class in a majority African-American neighborhood, are answering the same comprehension questions on the same novel during the same week.
