Divides curriculum development into 10 steps to aid administrators at the local level in planning for whole systems or for single courses. (JW)

To meet recently promulgated standards, teachers are challenged to teach more rigorous, extensive subject-area content, develop varied instructional strategies, and reach a wider range of students. Teachers should be guided by a high-quality curriculum characterized by academic rigor, equity, and developmental responsiveness. (MLH)

Curricular change should be a planned process that looks at the needs of students and at the content implications of any course or program. (Author)

Offers practical suggestions for minimizing 14 problems that frequently occur when curriculum programs are evaluated. Timing evaluations, evaluating appropriate factors, making meaningful comparisons, meeting skepticism, selecting tests, selecting evaluators, assessing evaluation results, and maintaining credibility are among the concerns…

Convinced that most educators are shortsighted in planning curriculum design, these writers take the proverbial bull by the horns and present the criteria they feel are necessary for realistic program planning. (Editor)

Author gives thourough treatment to alternatives evaluation purposes and problems. (Editor)

This study was concerned with designing, organizing, executing, and analyzing a goal assessment program for a large suburban high school district. (Author/RK)

Emphasis on the specific advantages of PPBS for principals, with special attention to evaluation as a component of PPBS and how it can improve principals' decision-making. (Editor)

How can a principal respond to community questions on the validity of "new math"? This article gives a comparative analysis of the old and new, and describes a potential prototype for math programs of the future. (Editor)

Article focuses on a project developed jointly by the St. Louis Board of Education and the Legal Aid Society of the City and County of St. Louis to provide legal education at the high school level. (Editor)

Excerpted here from an address presented to the Indiana Association of Secondary School Principals, this article focuses on how community education programs can help solve some of the crises schools face today as they search for relevancy and meaning. (Editor)

A Goals 2000 grant enabled Rutland Northeast (Vermont) Supervisory District to conduct a year-long unit-design project for K-12 teachers and university interns. Participants reported a sharpened focus for classroom activity, with purpose clearly defined by authentic tasks and rubrics. Freeing time for unit development represents a cost recoverable…

Using birth statistics to indicate school enrollment trends, the author describes a hypothetical case in which a system reverts to the junior high arrangement after having tried the middle school set-up. (Editor)

In attempting to answer the question posed in the title, this author offers an overview of the goals of arts programs and some general guidelines for administrators to follow in evaluating those programs. (Author/JM)