N.Y.C. To Develop Curriculum Standards for All Schools

By Peter Schmidt

Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines of New York City has undertaken the development of a curriculum framework for all the city's public schools.

The chancellor has established a panel of educators to devise citywide curriculum standards stating what students should be learning at certain grade levels, a spokesman confirmed last week.

Mr. Cortines told a reporter for The New York Times that standards are needed to address vast differences in the material taught to certain grades in each of the city's 1,069 schools and...