ABSTRACT
Teachers do curriculum work, so do principals, school board members, textbook authors and publishers, testing agencies, scholars and researchers, state and federal educational officials, and many, many others. Ultimately parents, elected representatives, many interest groups, and the public participate in some way in curriculum work. But not everyone who participates in some way practices curriculum professionally, just as not everyone who gives an aspirin practices medicine. Those who practice curriculum deal with curriculum matters frequently and focally, not occasionally and incidentally.
