District/School Administration Administration
The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

Second Progress Report of the English Language Arts Curriculum Framework Review Panel

As you know, we have embarked on a five-year cycle of reviewing each of the seven curriculum frameworks with the goal of making them more accessible and stronger in academic content. Last summer, the Board adopted the process and schedule for reviewing the frameworks, and in November 2007 the English Language Arts Curriculum Framework Panel began its work. The Board received and discussed the Panel's first progress report in April 2008. The Panel has done additional work, based on your comments in April, and now presents this second progress report for your information.

I believe that the first stage of the curriculum framework revision process adopted by the Board has been completed and intend to ask the Panel to begin the second phase immediately so that a draft of the English Language Arts Curriculum Framework can be presented to the Board this fall. To that end, I welcome your suggestions on the blueprint for changes in the attached report and for additional ways in which we can make the "third generation" of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks as clear and appropriately challenging as possible.

Enclosure: Second Progress Report