After you read this chapter, you should be able to

12.1 Describe the separate but interdependent relationships among curriculum, instruction, and society’s goals for students.
12.2 Defend the view that public school curricula respond to intellectual, societal, and political influences.
12.3 Assess how a school’s curricular balance impacts children’s personal, social, and intellectual growth and development.
12.4 Critique how conventional wisdom about the primary influencers of student learning expanded in the past few decades.
12.5 Support the view that educators must rethink effective teaching and learning technologies and consider both instructional and equity concerns.