This paper discusses the problems of the national curriculum in Taiwan and its impact on curriculum development in the schools. The major views involved are: (1) The national curriculum in U.K., U.S.A. and Japan are different in the degree of curriculum control. (2) The national curriculum may result in some risks- marketization, whose common culture, the dominative value of knowledge, domination of political ideology and the limit on teachers' professional autonomy. Finally, it explores the current problems of the national curriculum in our society, and the possibility that the achievement standard is constructed to substitute for the Curriculum Standard.