... Leadership Educational planning and administration Curriculum development The disparity in academic performance between “disadvantaged” students and their white counterparts has become the impetus which drives lawmakers, districts, schools and teachers in their attempts to reform educational practices...

... much, too quickly; appropriate professional development of teachers was lacking; and understanding by the schools about the rationale behind the new reforms was limited. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Leadership Schools Curricula Curriculum development Australia...

..., and be relatively stable. The model is particularly appropriate for the NSW context of this study in which the curriculum development organization (Board of Studies) and the government employer (Department of Education and Training) are conceptually distant from individual teachers. The study reported here...