I started out with Curriculum and Assessment since it's the section of the four that I know least about. "Who decides" led me to the concept of school-based management, which was interesting but I needed to know who decides overall curriculum and assessment on the state and national level before these discussions ever get to either the district or the school.
So I proceeded to investigate Standards Based Reform (reforming from input-based education). Outcomes-based reform is another name for SBR in some cases, and in others seems to be used to refer to particularly constructivist teaching and assessment measures of the outcomes that are set out to be achieved.
Having read some of the history, successes, and problems with SBR, I'm most intrigued by the great problem of its' becoming test-based reform, i.e., teaching to the test. I'm particularly curious about the new technology-based assessments that "they" say can measure creative and critical thinking in both verbal and quantitative arenas.
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