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1. Chapter 12- Curriculum Issues
and Trends

2. What are the Issues and Trends?
 National Curriculum
 Censored Curriculum
 Textbook Curriculum
 Compensatory
Education
 Multicultural
Education
 School Reform
 Moral Education
 Technology
 Curriculum Politics

3. National Curriculum
 National Standards
 Goals 2000

4.  Assistance to states and local school
districts
 NSBA position
Clarifying the Federal Role in
Education

5. Censored Curriculum
 Sanctity of the family
 Criticism of the free enterprise system
 anti-Americanism
 Obscene language
 Racial bias
 Creationism vs Evolution

6.  Textbooks are the curriculum
 Advantages and Disadvantages
 Alternatives
 Computer-assisted Instruction
 Customized Publishing
Textbooks

7.  “At-Risk” Students
 Problems
 no significant differences in learning
 less output in relation to input
 fade out process
 soft data
Compensatory Curriculum

8.  Melting Pot vs Salad Bowl
 Draws from the diversity of the human
family
 Procedural knowledge
 Effective instructional approaches for
teaching students of various racial
backgrounds
 Bilingual Education
Multicultural Education

9.  Market driven
 Privatized Education
 Choice
School Reform

10.  Different ethnic groups have different views
of what it means to have good morals or
good character
Moral Education

11.  Human values and educational purposes
over others
 Clear intent
 Not a quick fix
 How best to collect and share information
about schools
Technology and Curriculum

12. Politics of Curriculum