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Education > Teachers & Administrators Academic freedom and teacher choice in curriculums

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The exercise of academic freedom may historically be the most apparent embodiment of teachers' discord with their administrations. The often highly-contested rights of teachers to appraise curriculum and/or teaching methods and then in turn make adaptations based on a perceived need are akin to many labor disputes throughout history; a select group seeking a certain level of autonomy is pitted against a pre-existing standard of rules, values, or mores.
Teachers who have assumed the role of plaintiff in cases arguing their academic freedom have often contended their employers breac...

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