"The future of education had its genesis at the 1994 Invitational Conference of the Forum on Standards and Learning"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Titanic structure or human scale : school reform at the close of the twentieth century / Robert Orrill -- Curriculum ferment in the 1890s / Herbert M. Kliebard -- Implications of subject-matter standards / Christopher T. Cross -- The politics of national standards / Tom Loveless -- The threat to freedom in Goals 2000 / Stephen Arons -- Developing world-class education standards : some conceptual and political dilemmas / J. Myron Atkin -- Curriculum and assessment standards : common measures or conversations? / Dennie Palmer Wolf -- Policy and practice : the relations between governance and instruction / David K. Cohen and James P. Spillane -- Goals 2000 and a reauthorized ESEA : national standards and accompanying controversies / Michael W. Kirst and James W. Guthrie -- Teachers' professional development : critical colleagueship and the role of professional communities / Brian Lord -- Teachers regulating themselves : teachers owning their standards / Philip A. Cusick -- National curriculum content standards : the challenges for subject matter associations / Diane Massell -- Problems and issues facing the national standards project in English / Miles Myers.