Principals should focus curriculum development around specific questions mirroring journalistic who-what-where-why considerations. This means striving to clarify definitions, rationale and philosophy, policy origins, procedures, temporal arrangements, learning sites, and value. For example, schools have multiple curriculum philosophies that…

Discusses how many recent treatments of the hidden curriculum have overlooked historical antecedents of the early progressive curriculum literature. Shows how insights derived from John Dewey and others portray the hidden curriculum more positively than some of the ideologically laden interpretations in vogue today. The hidden curriculum can…

This essay explores the suburban mythos that dominates the pedagogical scene of public-communication instruction. This scene both narrows the civic meaning of citizenship and constructs an unproblematic environment of professional acceptance. In doing so, it removes any serious discussion of the world of conflicted interests. As a remedy, this…