Where SBM empowers administrators, teacher sovereignty empowers teachers. This redefinition of roles resolves the inherent conflict between responsibility for administration and responsibility for curriculum. If there are any consequences at all for poor productivity, teachers are the ones who suffer them. Teacher sovereignty solves that problem. Abolish Standardized Textbooks .
Standardized textbooks are one of schools' most wasteful expenditures.
They are a relic of a distant past when something was needed to overcome the isolation of an agrarian society. For creative teachers, standardized texts in the communications age represent the dead hand of mediocrity. They represent a futile attempt to standardize what is at its core a creative process. Well informed teachers may need no textbooks at all, let alone standardized ones. Besides, most textbooks are either obsolete before they are printed or are frivolously revised.