Alliance Formed To Push Curriculum to Front of Reform Agenda

By Debra Viadero

ASPEN, COLO.--The leaders of more than 33 national subject- matter groups met here last week and hammered out plans to form a permanent organization that would work to put curricular issues at the forefront of the education-reform movement.

"What we are unabashedly stating is that curriculum is the key centerpiece of the reform movement," said Gordon Cawelti, executive director of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and head of a steering committee formed to outline the structure of the new organization.

The effort is an outgrowth of a pioneering meeting of leaders from curriculum groups held here a year ago. (See Education...