S. Carolina 'Congress' Kicks Off Effort To Redraft Curriculum in

By Ellen Flax

Seven Subjects

COLUMBIA, S.C.-More than 600 South Carolina educators and policymakers met here recently to begin for their state a process that is already under way at the national level-rethinking what the schools should teach across the whole spectrum of grade levels and subject areas.

Billed as the first statewide curriculum congress in the nation, the meeting here was a counterpart to the second national curriculum congress, held in Aspen, Colo., last month, at which some 50 discipline groups shared their views about the precollegiate course of study....