This study investigates how instructors consider resource cost and availability when compiling assignments in their course syllabi. It uses the academic planning model from Lattuca and Stark to frame the influences on instructional material selection. It employs a critical incident technique method, asking instructors to take into account one…

Over the past number of years, several initiatives have set the stage for writing the Massachusetts ABE (Adult Basic Education) Curriculum Frameworks for Mathematics and Numeracy. This current version of the "Massachusetts ABE Mathematics Curriculum Frameworks" is a second revision of that first framework, but it is heavily influenced by…

A publication devoted to minorities in the curriculum provides several kinds of information. One section contains reports of courses and practices at all school levels in 38 schools throughout Massachusetts. The major part of the document consists of extensive notations of teaching resources--curriculum packages, media materials, textbooks, and…