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<		Great stuff - thanks! I will digest this more over the coming week, but here are a few quick responses to the enumerated comments below:
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>		Great stuff - thanks! I will digest this more over the coming week, but here are a few quick responses to the enumerated comments above:
 1) Personally, I don't think teacher dependence on textbooks and rigid lesson plans is good, but, whatever my ideas are for an ideal education system, that is beyond what I wanted to tackle here. Specifically, I was just hoping to point out systemic realities that aren't likely to change anytime soon and then envision what challenges might arise if all of these educational materials were suddenly free. There is a lot to criticize about NCLB, certainly, but to my knowledge every state attempts to play by its rules for funding purposes. When standardized tests, on which funding depends, are linked to very specific learning objectives, educators are extremely constrained to teach things by the book. That's the reality of it. Having specific, universal learning objectives makes it easier to collect data on a large-scale and then evaluate national educational progress. That's what goes on in this country: the fed has created an omni-present aura of accountability, and this kind of surveillance is supposed to be the spur educators need. If teachers were suddenly allowed to take advantage of a free textbook/curriculum market, it would become much more difficult to match so many new varieties of methodologies with measurable learning objectives.

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