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- SAGE
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- Copyright © 2019 by American Educational Research Association
- ISSN
- 0002-8312
- eISSN
- 1935-1011
- DOI
- 10.3102/00028312040001147
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Abstract
This study examines a “critical case” of one school district’s efforts to develop and implement a standards-based curriculum. The study was conducted from two competing perspectives that have dominated organizational analysis in education: the rational and the institutional. The findings demonstrate that the district took an expressly rationalistic approach by using standards and a corresponding criterion-referenced test to focus teachers’ instruction on common sets of outcomes. However, the findings suggest that, lacking a clear instructional philosophy, the district also took an institutional approach, in part. Its approach to development and implementation of the standards-based curriculum resulted in district standards that fell below state standards, a narrowing of curriculum and instructional strategies, and professional development and instructional supervision that lacked an instructional focus.
Journal
American Educational Research Journal – SAGE
Published: Jun 23, 2016
Keywords: curriculum standards,educational reform,school organization