State-based curriculum-making: the Illinois Learning Standards.

This case study of the development of theIllinois Learning Standardsof 1997 parallels a study of the development of the Norwegian compulsory school curriculum of 1997,Læreplanverket 1997.The pair of case studies is designed to explore the administration of state-based curriculum-making and, in particular, the use of the administrative tools ofcompartmentalization, segmentationandlicencing. Often the use of these tools serves to make the curriculum as a guiding instrument largely symbolic and/or ideological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]