[Foundation-l] WikiCurriculum -- clarifications and responses

[Casey Brown]

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On 9/1/07, Martin Weissman <weissman.marty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A word about the perceived U.S. focus of the WikiCurriculum project:
>
> I do not have an intention of making the WikiCurriculum project
> U.S.-centric.
> In fact, I would prefer to integrate standards from countries around the
> world.  In this way, a user will be able to view a block of content, and
> see
> which national/state standards (from around the world) are correlated.
>
> My personal expertise is with U.S. national, California, and Massachusetts
> standards.  I would like others in the community to provide connections to
> international standards as well as other U.S. states.  This could be
> especially useful for identifying gaps in standards, and narrowing the
> achievement gap between countries.  In addition, developing countries
> could
> find templates of standards to follow, and design curricula accordingly.
>
> In this way, I do not think that the WikiCurriculum project, by its
> nature,
> suffers from the problem of being too U.S.-centric for the Wikimedia
> mission.  I have recently heard from the International Professors Project,
> expressing interest in this project.
>
> As for potential redundancy with WikiUniversity, I believe that more
> discussion is warranted, and I hope to hear more!
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Marty Weissman
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