Curriculum reform

Curriculum reform refers to attempts to improve the selection and organization of school knowledge and associated student learning. However, the reform process is complicated by different views about curriculum purposes, priorities, and processes. The result of these differences, and of the politics they generate, is that the record of lasting and successful curriculum reform is weak. To achieve its aspirational intent, curriculum reform will be best served by a democratic approach to both ends and means, a challenge to the large-scale and centralized nature of recent reform efforts. [publisher's website