| A | B |
| First Wave Reform Movement | Reinforces traditional Eurocentric curriculum |
| Nation At Risk | Called for total reform of schools in the US |
| Nation At Risk | Focused on core curriculum, elementaary school standards, student expectations, time, teaching, and leadership with fiscal support |
| Allan Bloom | Proposes that colleges and universities teach a great books curriculum |
| E. D. Hirsh | believes well-educated students must have a strong Euro-centered academic background to survive in our culture |
| Archur Schlesinger | Believes our Euro-centered heritage is threatened |
| 2nd Wave Reform | Classroom teachers to help students learn how to live in a pluralistic society |
| Project Equality | Main focus is helping students prepare for college - recommendations focus on what students are learning in the classroom |
| John Banks | Believes in concept of social control. Eurocentered curriculum is destructive to society |
| Paolo Freire | Believes schools have the power to change a person's life without that individual being aware of it. |
| Michael Apple | Believes schools educate students to values, ideals, and rules of acceptable behaviors thru hidden curriculum |
| Joel Spring | Believes school have created a society that is becoming less and less concerned about the human condition |