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Susan L. Douglass – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2022
Education reform has focused on academic standards, but curriculum is still weighed down by outdated subject-area categories that are reinforced through various practices and institutions. T his article examines the possibilities for an integrative curriculum model that can accommodate the broad goals of holistic education and the needs of society…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Change, Academic Standards, Holistic Approach
Thompson, Helen M.; Henley, Susan A. – 2000
This book focuses on information literacy and facilitating change in schools. Chapters include:" What Is Information Literacy?"; "Why Information Literacy?"; "How Information Literacy Relates to National Curriculum Standards"; "Essential Components of Information Literacy"; "The Necessary Reforms and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Resources
Dirksen, Debra J.; Tharp, Donald – 2000
This paper presents an evaluation of a Goals 2000 project being carried out in a rural western school district. The participants have embarked on a series of training modules designed to develop their skills with a variety of software applications and the integration of technology within the curriculum. Participants--administrators and classroom…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
Northrup, Pamela Taylor; Pilcher, Janet K. – 1998
Support for Teachers Enhancing Performance in Schools (STEPS) is a World Wide Web and CD-ROM electronic performance support system (EPSS) designed for preK-12 and preservice educators to assist in designing and developing lessons, units, or curricula; this tool was developed around school reform and accountability initiatives in Florida. To…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education
Newburger, Craig – 1995
In 1989, President George Bush met with the nation's governors and the foundation was laid for the "Goals 2000: Educate America Act" (signed into law March 1994). The act provides funds to underwrite states' development and implementation of content and performance standards and associated assessment methodologies directed toward helping…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development
Norton, Priscilla; Sprague, Debra – 1998
Belen Public Schools (New Mexico) received a Goals 2000 grant for teacher education and technology integration. The Belen Goals 2000 professional development project established two three-day teachers-teaching-teachers workshops. The first focused on using an integrated software package and the second focused on using e-mail and the Internet.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Curriculum Development
O'Fallon, David – Teaching Theatre, 1995
Reviews the status of Goals 2000, and how proposed funding cuts may affect reform efforts. Pleads for arts educators to remind themselves and the public of what their work and education reform are about. (PA)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support

Kenney, Marianne – Social Studies, 2004
Much like the cycles and rhythms of the seasons, implementation of the national geography standards in Colorado has, over the course of a decade, grown, developed, and changed. As with the exciting beginning of spring, our time of planting was set in motion in 1993 by the passage of Colorado House Bill 1313, which set a deadline for school…
Descriptors: Geography, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, School Districts

Colwell, Richard J. – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1995
Maintains that the effort to develop and implement national standards in the arts is politically correct but not free of psychological or pedagogical viewpoints. Asserts that educators must formulate the right questions and assess objectively the potential outcomes of an arts education program in reformed schools. (CFR)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
North Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL. – 1995
This document provides a portfolio of resources for educators involved in rural school improvement. The Federal Interagency Committee on Education developed a national research and development (R&D) agenda for rural education that focuses on six themes: rural school effectiveness, curricular provisions, school-community partnerships, human…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Distance Education, Educational Finance
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1994
This document is a background paper for satellite town meeting on the "Goals 2000: Educate America Act." The paper discusses the importance of studying the arts for themselves, and as a means of helping students learn other subjects. It suggests that studying the arts prepares students for the workplace and helps to build the United…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Teachers, Curriculum Development
Jennings, John F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
The process of instituting standards is well under way, thanks to mathematics teachers' efforts, the Bush Administration and governors' agreements about establishing national educational goals, and President Clinton's 1994 Goals 2000 legislation. There is no danger of a nationally imposed curriculum. States are using the standards process in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation

Smith, Marshall S.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1991
In developing a national curriculum, ways must be found to challenge students and teachers, preserve initiative, and maintain democratic control. President Bush's New American Achievement Tests will consist of a system of examinations to be administered by individual states or clusters of states. Conversion should embody a grand,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Democratic Values, Government School Relationship, National Competency Tests
Riley, Richard W. – Teaching PreK-8, 1994
Discusses how three states are implementing the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, focusing on Massachusetts' Common Core of Learning, Delaware's First Schools in the First State pilot curriculum project, and Oregon's Initial Mastery and Advanced Mastery certificates. Notes that one of the aims of Goals 2000 is to make states true laboratories of…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Certificates, Educational Change
Borman, Jennifer; Cusick, Philip – 1998
The Michigan English Language Arts Framework (MELAF) offers an illustrative case of top-down and bottom-up confluences in curriculum policymaking. In several distinct ways, state policy met local initiatives to create dynamic partnerships to spread change. State systematic reformers looked to the grass roots for ideas and percolating initiatives.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy