Often, implementation has not been considered a crucial stage in the curriculum planning process. Successful curriculum implementation, regardless of its design, rests upon delineating at the outset of the development process the stages necessary for implementation. (Author)

A strategic vision is vital in meeting the challenges facing urban education. Schooling patterned on the industrial factory model cannot equip students to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Urban education must include the community in its decision making and provide multidimensional solutions to its challenges. (CJS)

Community and educational goals must both be used to shape urban curricula. Organizing curricula requires rethinking curriculum content and interrelationships, teacher deployment, building organization, and networking in the community. (CJS)

Curriculum and teaching should be dialogic, multifaceted, critical experiences, not merely exchanges of information. Discusses the teacher's role in stimulating thinking processes and getting urban students to ask questions about class material and their own world. (CJS)