2009/3/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/3/28 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
Not sure such bodies are accountable (at least not in the UK). Definitely not elected in the UK.
The UK National Curriculum is determined by parliament, I believe - definitely an elected body.
(I believe it's the English National Curriculum, not a UK-wide thing.)
It may also be worth pointing out that the Schools Wikipedia, compiled to the National Curriculum, is proving vastly popular with teachers around the world. And, remember, it was created not as an attempt at a Wikipedia-on-DVD, but as a practical workaday encyclopedia for SOS Children's Villages to use in their own schools.
So if it's not up to scratch as an encyclopedia to use with the National Curriculum, saying "don't use it" is unlikely to fix the situation - instead, the most effective approach would be to make it better and fix problems.
- d.