| "Standards-Based Curriculum Reform" or "Standards-Based Movement" is the main content of the American curriculum reform and development in fundamental education since the 1990s and is also the foreland of comparative research of curriculum and instruction. This paper selected American National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies in Fundamental Education as the research object. We started from a certain aspect and tried to make a special research on the reform and development of the social studies during the American "Standards-Based" curriculum reform. It was to provide an reference use for the establishment and development of the curriculum of social studies in our country.This paper was composed of an introduction and a text, which included four parts. We tried to make a systemic, general and thorough study on the evdvement of social studies, on the origin of national standards and on its peculiarities, functions, experiences, etc. so as to discuss the American experience or revelation for our country. This paper gave the following conclusions桸ational curriculum standards are necessary and important for keeping the quality and level of curriculums and instructions in national wide; National curriculum standards should face the whole country and possess the quality for generalization, and meanwhile, it should allow the multiplicity and flexibility in order to have the certain function and practical significance; National curriculum standards should have the core framework or the themes which has the quality for instruction and manipulation; During the development of the standards, it is important to make cooperation with the government educational department, professional groups, teachers, etc. in order to improve the quality of the standards and their acceptance of the standards; The implementation of national curriculum standards is an up-down transition and the effective interactions among all the stages are very important.
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