Curriculum Trends in the Next 10 Years For more than 20 years, curriculum and its accompanying emphasis on standards and accountability for learning have dominated the debate over improving education. Today, the controversy over how to provide equity in achieving the curriculum, how to achieve compatibility between equity and high standards, and what comprises a meaningful curriculum are increasingly commonplace and serve to focus attention on the performance and progress of

(a new history of Iraq) Psychologically, it is very difficult for them to believe that Islamic believers, meaning Arabs in this case have lost wars with the infidels. Islam is the religion of victors and one day, God willing Islam will rule the world is their belief. This is what leads Sheikh Abdul Settar Jabber head of the Muslim Awareness Association; a leading Sunni group to feel that the entire

' Musical intelligence can be deployed through the use of teaching 'times tables songs' and visual intelligence can be stimulated through the use of allowing students to create colorful classroom displays, perhaps even drawing upon student's interpersonal intelligence as well by assigning different teams a single 'table,' like six, to illustrate with pictures. Although I believe that multiple intelligences can be incorporated into any classroom, with the right degree of creativity

Human relations are vital. Teachers must trust each other, there must be norms that support productive criticism, and there must be techniques in place for combining and resolving disputes. Arrangements need to be in place that generates discussion for problem identification and decision making. These arrangements could be things such as normal team meetings amid teachers at the same grade level or department meetings within high schools and middle

Student Performance Correlation Scores of Achievement Scores of Students with Original and New Curriculum Original Curriculum Mean Standard Error Median Standard Deviation Sample Variance Kurtosis Skew ness Range Minimum Maximum Sum Count Confidence Level (95.0%) New Curriculum Mean Standard Error Median Standard Deviation Sample Variance Kurtosis Skew ness Range Minimum Maximum Sum Count Confidence Level (95.0%) Improvement in Performance of Achievement Test Scores By comparing the correlation values of students who were exposed to the new curriculum and those who were not, it is clear that students with the new curriculum outperformed those who did not. Students working with the original

curriculum books have been written since the turn of the [20th] century; each with a different version of what 'curriculum' means (Ackerman, 1988). I define classroom curriculum design as the sequencing and pacing of content along with the experiences students have with that content. My use of the qualifier classroom is important. By definition, I am considering those decisions regarding sequencing, pacing, and experiences that are the purview of