NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Nelson, Lynn R.; And Others – 1989
This paper chronicles the effort of a curriculum development team to alter the high school social studies curriculum, its content, and instructional methods. Specifically, Entrepreneur/Economic Education (E-3) is the focus of this curriculum reform effort. The E-3 program is designed as a four-year cooperative effort involving selected teachers,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Opportunities, Economics, Economics Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Burwood, Les R. V. – Educational Studies, 1992
Reviews and interprets evidence that demonstrates underachievement in working class children. Argues that any success with improving effectiveness of these students is determined by classroom teachers. Concludes that continuous efforts must be made to reduce the gap between everyday experience and classroom experience. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, British National Curriculum, Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Tipper, Margaret O. – 1982
An intensive case study was conducted of one high school student's internship in an effort to determine the organizing principles that created the internship curriculum. A junior in the School for Extended Learning received high school credit for serving an internship at the Community Video Center (CVC), a non profit organization offering video…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Employer Attitudes, Experiential Learning
Koller, John M. – 1995
This report describes a project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York) to develop a curriculum that focuses on the social construction and use of science and technology in diverse cultural contexts. The program consists of both a minor and a three-course concentration on cross-cultural studies of science and technology. Courses covered…
Descriptors: College Science, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development, Engineering Education
Hutcheson, Polly, Ed. – 1999
This report highlights the various strategies used to relate cooperative education (CE) work experience to students' academic programs by profiling 17 colleges and universities that are members of the National Commission for Cooperative Education's College Partner Program. Each profile includes a brief statement from the institution's president;…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education
Branan, Alvord; Hergert, Michael – 1996
The MEXUS program, a transnational, undergraduate, dual-degree program in the United States and Mexico, addresses the problem of how universities can better prepare students to manage business in an interdependent global marketplace. The program was initiated as a consortium of four institutions (San Diego State University and Southwestern College…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training