Although the curriculum reform movement started as an effort to meet a social-political crisis by overhauling the curriculum of the American school, its eventual contribution may go well beyond improvement of subject matter. (Author)

Four unexpected patterns of teacher behavior are identified and elaborated: selecting national project curriculums on the basis of pragmatic criteria; visualizing the teaching problems with new materials only after classroom experience with these materials; rejecting abstract analysis of curriculum issues in favor of concrete thinking; and viewing…

A case study of a systemwide development, implementation, and evaluation of K-10 mathematics programs primarily, although not exclusively, in basic computational skills and problem-solving. (Author/MLF)