Word: nikandrov
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...Nikandrov cited several weak sectors in Soviet education...
...must give teachers more power to decide what they will teach students," Nikandrov said, adding that in the existing hierarchical format for education, principals decide "practically everything...
...Nikandrov also said that control of curriculum should be less centralized. "At this point 70 percent of the curriculum comes from Moscow," he added. He stated a modest goal of giving local councils 40 percent control...
School councils, composed of the principal, elected teachers and students and community leaders, should take more responsibility for individual school programs, Nikandrov said...
...added that the pace of reform in the Soviet Union remains slow. "It's one thing to proclaim a set of new ideas--it's quite another to transform them into a new set of textbooks," Nikandrov said...