List of What Districts Can Do by Chapter
About the Balanced Curriculum Web Site
Part I. Alignment and Instruction, Textbooks, and Standardized Tests
1. Introduction to Curriculum Alignment
Alignment Problems: Too Many Standards, Too Little Time
2. Alignment and Instruction
The Reform Up Close Study and Alignment's Dimensions
Instructional Alignment and Professional Development
Three Smaller Studies of Instructional Alignment
3. Alignment and Textbooks
Textbook to Test Alignment
Summary of Findings for Studies of Textbook to Test Alignment
Quality of Textbook Instruction
Modifying the Use of Textbooks to Improve Alignment
Summary of Findings for Textbook Alignment
4. Alignment and Standardized Tests
Marzano's Standards Compilation and the Web Site for Achieve, Inc.
The Webb Studies: Aligning State Standards, Assessments, and Policies
The Browder Study: Alignment in Special Education
Science Inquiry and Alignment to Three Large-Scale Assessments
The Bowe and Kingsbury Study
The National Center for Educational Statistics Study (2007): Cut Scores for State Tests and the NAEP
English and Steffy: Backloading the Curriculum
Summary of Findings for Studies of Alignment of State Tests
Part II. Alignment and Mastery Learning, Project 2061, and TIMSS
5. Alignment, Reteaching, and Mastery Learning
Bloom's Theory of School Learning
Cohen: Instructional Alignment
Summary of Findings for Studies of Mastery Learning
6. Ideas From Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Summary of Findings for Project 2061
7. Curriculum Makes a Difference-Alignment and the TIMSS Analysis
Findings-Curriculum and Student Achievement
Part III. The Aligned Curriculum
8. Criteria for a Useful and Usable Curriculum Incorporating Alignment
The Many Meanings of Curriculum
The Common Definition of Curriculum
Our Definition of Curriculum
Criteria for a Useful and Usable Curriculum
9. Addressing Alignment Through a Curriculum Design: The Balanced Curriculum Model
Results From School Districts
The Balanced Curriculum Model
Is the Balanced Curriculum Useful and Usable?
What Districts Can Do-A Conclusion
10. How the Balanced Curriculum Meets This Book's Recommendations for Districts
Summary of Recommendations
11. Summary of Alignment Research and Recommendations
Summary of the Book's Chapters
The Research Posted on the Alignment Matrix
Major Findings From the Alignment Research
Resource: Ten Criteria for Structuring a Useful and Usable Curriculum
