The article argues that the COVID-19 crisis is a curriculum crisis, because it is a humanitarian crisis. Survival--physical, psychological, educational--is at stake. As educators have mobilized to meet the emergency, this introductory article to "Prospects" special issue on "Curriculum Responsiveness to Crisis" glimpses elements of that effort, both theoretical and practical. It concludes that the student--the individual person--should remain central to any conception of curriculum, to any organization of pedagogical communication, indeed to the very project of education itself.