Jordan E. Horowitz’s recent Commentary (“High School to College: The New Alignment,” Jan. 3, 2011) speaks to an issue of particular concern to community colleges, which recognize fully that many ...

What Is a Curricular Alignment? Curricular alignment is the process of aligning a program’s curriculum with its goals. It is a part of a high-level backwards design approach to the design of an entire ...

More funding is needed to achieve greater curriculum alignment between preschool and the early school years, so that what students learn in kindergarten through 3rd grade builds on what they learned ...

Curriculum Prioritization, Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs), COVID-19, Curriculum Coherence, Teacher Agency Share and Cite: Malihan, J.C. (2026) Relearning What Matters: The MELCs as a ...