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ERIC Number: EJ549989
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
Curriculum Change as a Reform Strategy: Lessons from the United States and Scotland.
Gamoran, Adam
Teachers College Record, v98 n4 p608-28 Sum 1997
Two cases of planned curriculum change are examined to illustrate the limits and possibilities of curriculum reform. One case used upgraded mathematics curriculum for low achieving, urban, U.S. secondary students. The other examined a national curricular reform in Scotland where secondary curricula and national examinations were closely aligned. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, College Preparation, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education, National Curriculum, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Transitional Programs, Urban Education
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Reform Efforts; Scotland; United States