From its inception, this journal has been committed to publishing quality theoretical and empirical work in the curriculum and supervision areas. Former editor Edmund Short's early years with the journal went well because of his reliance on personal relationships and communication, his commitment to research and theorizing, and his ability to…

Provides an objective critique of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) as a reform strategy and a curriculum process, based on a literature review and experience in North Carolina schools. OBE is theoretically narrow, but charges concerning OBE's technocratic, uncaring orientation lack foundation. The curriculum process allows teacher participation. OBE…

In response to vocal complaints from colleagues and the need for a more powerful curriculum development tool, a group of experienced faculty at Community College of Philadelphia designed a challenging model. Faculty are required to reexamine their institution and uncover hidden, often conflicting assumptions concerning the nature of knowledge and…

Before World War II, secondary school mathematics fell on hard times. The war focused educators' and the public's attention on the immediate need for mathematics. Experts conceived of postwar curricula aimed at solving social and scientific problems. Postwar planning was based on three assumptions: functional competence, applications based on…

The Virginia Curriculum Revision Plan, developed by Hollis Caswell and Sydney Hall during the 1930s, was showcased as a model that effectively involved teachers, students, and administration in a comprehensive educational improvement project. This article explores teachers' role in developing and adopting the plan and discusses implications for…

Explores ways to cultivate acceptance of the aesthetic and the imaginative in curriculum development and teaching through exposure to poetry, art, music, and literature. Encourages open, playful approach to student learning. (PKP)

Summarizes study investigating collaborative curriculum development in Alberta, Canada, elementary schools. Focus is "snapshot" capturing extent, rather than quality, of collaboration, based on stratified random sample of elementary school principals. School staffs are moving toward more collaborative curriculum-development mode but are…

Describes the experience of three U.S. mathematics teachers while implementing a new high school curriculum (Core-Plus Mathematics Project) during the 1994-95 academic year. Teachers renegotiated where mathematical authority should lie--with the teacher, the students, or both. Shared mathematical authority emphasizes conceptual understanding of…

Describes Progressive Education Association's Eight-Year Study conceived in 1930 and published in 1942. Attempts to correct subsequent misconceptions and misinterpretations of the study's findings. (Contains 43 references.) (PKP)

Sets forth theoretical propositions developed in the four-year-old Critical Spirit Project in Los Angeles, California. Contends that students learn to reason critically as they are initiated into school communities that grant importance to critical reasoning and treat instruction in critical thinking as a form of character education. (25…

Missing in curriculum revision/school restructuring links is a curriculum paradigm that incorporates reflective intelligence while promoting social and utilitarian responsibilities. The "social-reconstructive wedge" model described in this article addresses this paradoxical issue by treating the school system as a social system where constituents…

Summarizes two Israeli case studies concerning an internal curriculum coordinator functioning as a school staff member and an external curriculum coordinator delegated by a national project. The schools had similar (participative) educational philosophies. Studies highlighted the principal-coordinator relationship, personal factors affecting the…

A group of teachers at a large, urban Texas district participated in a project to develop and teach study units based on E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Curriculum. Drawing on their deliberations and university coursework, teachers selected topics, built units, and devised literacy strategies to teach core knowledge content. (Contains 34 references.)…

This article looks at the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, discusses the formative stages of multicultural education, and explains the shifting contours of multicultural education, along with some reasons for these developmental changes. It explores two specific domains of multicultural education--curriculum desegregation and…

Fifty years ago the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board, declaring education to be the foundation of good citizenship and preparation for occupational success, rejected the doctrine of "separate but equal" as applied to schools. The Court extended the American ideal of common education for common citizenship to black school children.…