Magazines
Abstract
Magazines SAGE Publications, Inc.1927DOI: 10.1177/019263652701101805 COUNTS, GEORGE S. "Wlzo Slaall Make the Curriculum?'-' School Review, XXXV (May, 1927), 332-39. Evidence accumulating from many sources indicates that the high-school program throughout the country is undergoing rapid changes, many of which are very wide departures from the established program of fifteen or twenty years ago. Conflicting social agencies outside the school have been the chief cause of these changes. Members within the teaching profession have contented themselves by following the line of least resistance. In making a curriculum two salient facts must be kept in mind. In the first place, curriculum making is a task of such great difficulty that it should be made only by persons specially and intensively trained for the task. In the second place, because the task requires the uses of such wide ranges of knowledge and experience it must be made a cooperative effort. Five agencies that have busied themselves with curriculum-making who are not fitted for the task are: state legislatures, boards of education, powerful minorities, colleges, and persons concerned with the defense of special subjects. Professor Counts believes that the groups mentioned are unfitted for the task of curriculum-making and that the co6perative