Wilson, Bruce L., and Gretchen B. Rossman, Mandating Academic Excellence: High School Responses to State Curriculum Reform. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
Annotation
Reports an examination of five schools' responses to Maryland's increased course requirements of 1985 by RBS researchers with implications for the role of policy changes in school reform.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study
Survey
Narrow Topic
Core Mandates, Secondary School Curriculum
