Article Abstracts Topic Guide Preface Acknowledgments Advisory Board Section One: Where Do We Begin? Article 1: Why Education Is So Difficult and Contentious - Kieran Egan Article 2: Questionable Assumptions About Schooling - Elliot W. Eisner Section Two: What Is Curriculum? Article 3: Research Note: What is Really Important in the Curriculum World? - Judith Dziuban and Marcella Kysilka Article 4: Curriculum Alignment Revisited - Allan A. Glatthorn Article 5: Knowledge Alive - David Perkins Section Three: How Do We Think About Curriculum Article 6: The Curriculum-Curriculum - William H. Schubert Article 7: Human Agency and the Curriculum - Hanan A. Alexander Article 8: Adolescent Needs, Curriculum and the Eight-Year Study - Robert V. Bullough, Jr. and Craig Kridel Article 9: Toward a Renaissance in Curriculum Theory and Development in the USA - William G. Wraga and Peter S. Hlebowitsh Article 10: The Information Age: A Blessing or a Curse? - Neil Postman Section Four: How Can Curriculum Be Organized? Article 11: The Memories of an All-Black Northern Urban School: Good Memories of Leadership, Teachers, and the Curriculum - Adah Ward Randolph Article 12: Integrating High School and the Community College: Previous Efforts and Current Possibilities - Carrie B. Kisker Article 13: Building a Plane While Flying It: Early Lessons From Developing Charter Schools - Noelle C. Griffin and Priscilla Wohlstetter Section Five: What Is The Status Of The Academic Curriculum? Article 14: Learning to Read in Kindergarten: Has Curriculum Development Bypassed the Controversies? - Bruce Joyce, Marilyn Hrycauk, and Emily Calhoun Article 15: Literacy Education and Reading Programs in the Secondary School: Status, Problems, and Solutions - Freya M. J. Zipperer, M. Thomas Worley, Michelle W. Sisson, and Rhonda W. Said Article 16: A Deeper Sense of Literacy: Curriculum-Driven Approaches to Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom - Cynthia Scheibe Article 17: War, Critical Thinking, and Self-Understanding - Nel Noddings Article 18: The Math Wars - Alan H. Schoenfeld Article 19: Chemistry, The Central Science? The History of the High School Science Sequence - Keith Sheppard and Dennis M. Robbins Article 20: School days (Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll!) - Rick Mitchell Section Six: What Is The Extra- Or Co- Curriculum? Article 21: Extracurricular Activities and Adolescent Development - Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Bonnie L. Barber, Margaret Stone, and James Hunt Article 22: After-School Programs Are Making a Difference - Marianne Russell Kugler Article 23: The Effect of Interscholastic Sports Participation on Academic Achievement of Middle Level School Students - Larry J. Stephens and Laura A. Schaben Article 24: Hearts and Minds: Military Recruitment and the High School Battlefield - William Ayers Section Seven: Are There Political Aspects To Curriculum? Article 25: Curriculum Matters - W. James Popham Article 26: Cashing In On the Classroom - Alex Molnar Article 27: Politics of Character Education - Robert W. Howard, Marvin W. Berkowitz, and Esther F. Schaeffer Article 28: No Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow - Murry R. Nelson Article 29: A Contemporary Controversy in American Education: Including Intelligen Design in the Science Curriculum - Vicki D. Johnson Section Eight: How Does The Curriculum Meet The Needs of Diverse Populations? Article 30: The Plains City Story - Marcela von Olphen, Francisco Rios, William Berube, Robin Dexter, and Robert McCarthy Article 31: How Global is the Curriculum? - Andrew F. Smith Article 32: Designing Appropriate Curriculum for Special Education Students in Urban Schools - Timothy E. Morse Article 33: Urban Public High School Teachers' Beliefs About Science Learner Characteristics: Implications for Curriculum - Glenda M. Prime and Rommel J. Miranda Article 34: Tried and True: The Rural School Curriculum in the Age of Accountability - Aimee Howley Section Nine: What Are Current Hot-Button Issues in Curriculum? Article 35: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Amiable Allies or Phony Friends? - W. James Popham Article 36: It's the Curriculum, Stupid: There's Something Wrong with It - Dave F. Brown Article 37: Teaching for Social Justice, Diversity, and Citizenship in a Global World - James A. Banks Article 38: Beyond Zero Tolerance: Restoring Justice in Secondary Schools - Jeanne B. Stinchcomb, Gordon Bazemore, and Nancy Riestenberg Section Ten: Where Are We Now? Article 39: It's Time to Start the Slow School Movement - Maurice Holt Article 40: The Lure of Learning in Teaching - Daniel P. Liston Internet Resources About the Editors Index
