5.+The+Outcome

**A compromise...** “In the end, what became the American curriculum was not the result of any decisive victory by any of the contending parties, but a loose, largely unarticulated, and not very tidy compromise.” (Kliebard, 2004, p. 25) http://blog.thaeger.com/2011/06/24/humorous-star-wars-paintings/

**...and modernized subjects** “If the success of the 65-year effort to reform the American curriculum is to be judged by the extend to which English, mathematics, science, history, geography, and the like simply survived the assault against them, then the effort must be counted a failure. [… Nevertheless] modest successes were achieved in restructuring, integrating, and modernizing the subjects that compromise the curriculum. The subjects survived, but in an altered form.” (Kliebard, 2004, p. 269) NEXT