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Curriculum Development and Implementation Two major thrusts, traditional and contemporary, have directed the curriculum offerings of US schools for many decades. Many different groups set content standards. Remember Goals 2000, which focused on improvement efforts on high expectations and achievement results for all students. This results-focused comprehensive effort is known as standards-based education reform. Standards-based reform drives institutional changes toward improved teaching and learning and high student performance by connecting otherwise fragmented systems. Two categories: subject-centered and learner-centered curricula. Subject-centered: all the subjects for instruction are separated. This curriculum calls for extensive explanation and oral discourse. The fused curriculum is an attempt to decrease the number of separate subjects. In the learner-centered structure, major emphasis is given to the needs and interests of learners. Types of students served by the curriculum
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