The Common Core State Standards, released in June 2010, offer an opportunity to shift education away from shallow, test-prep instruction and toward a focus on key cognitive skills, writes Conley. Two consortia of states are now developing common assessments to measure these standards--assessments that will be designed to capture deeper, more…

An attempt is made here to summarize briefly some of the challenges facing curriculum evaluation and evaluators. Further, suggestions are made for policy decisions and directions that research and applications might take. (Author/CB)

Examines six simplistic beliefs about curriculum and their implications for curriculum development and educational practice. Argues that simplistic notions of curriculum must be challenged, and extensive efforts must be made to develop a comprehensive concept of curriculum. (JG)

According to the strategic management approach, the curriculum of a school system is a strategic statement of the system that determines how it selects activities, organizes its resources, and determines how well the system has performed its function within the overall policies it was constructed to implement. (Author/JM)

When teachers prepare their own curriculum outlines, crucial issues come to the surface, promoting examination of what teachers believe about themselves, about children, and about teaching. (Author/MLF)

Five short articles describe curriculum planning achievements in selected schools, including establishment of goals for a program for gifted and talented children; the use of learning charts, curriculum guides, and content lesson plans to make expectations public; establishment of subject area coordination; and two curriculum models. (MLF)

Article stresses the need for a new look at curriculum negotiation, and for more thought to be given to young people when professionals are dealing with curriculum efforts. (ML)

Schools have been poorly equipped to deal with affective concerns in terms of any prompt solutions to serious problems that effect major problems in curriculum instruction. (Author/ML)

Among the factors preventing effective curriculum management are that schools do not state their missions in specific terms or utilize their resources, and neglect systematic use of feedback. (Author/MLF)

Authors look at some of the issues that must be faced by local educators who must conceive and manage career development programs. (Authors/CB)

Provides a critique and a defense of Maryland's Project Basic, a curriculum design that uses adult activities as the source of objectives for the curriculum. (Author/MLF)

Examines what kind of curriculum is needed for the next quarter-century, using a survey of the past two decades, 1955-65 and 1965-75, as a guide. (Author/MLF)

The history of curriculum development provides insight into the problems of improving instructional content and classroom learning experiences. (MM)

Author offers suggestions for broadening the scope of education and educator. (RK)