In 2021, California committed to providing universal prekindergarten (UPK) for all 4-year-olds and expanding access for income-eligible 3-year-olds by 2025-2026. California UPK includes several early learning programs, including transitional kindergarten (TK), the California State Preschool Program (CSPP), Head Start, and locally funded early…

Over the past several years, Louisiana educators have taken the charge to raise expectations and educational outcomes for its students, believing students are smart, capable, and deserve opportunities to become productive members of a global society. Through a clear alignment of standards, curriculum, and assessments, students have stepped up to…

The core practice of professional scientists is inquiry, often referred to as research. If educators are to prepare students for a role in the professional scientific and technological community, exposing them to inquiry-based learning is essential. Despite this, inquiry-based teaching and learning (IBTL) remains relatively rare, possibly due to…

Over the past several years, Louisiana educators have taken the charge to raise expectations and educational outcomes for its students, believing students are smart, capable, and deserve opportunities to become productive members of a global society. Through a clear alignment of standards, curriculum, and assessments, students have stepped up to…

The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL), examines how college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation. This brief presents findings from C-SAIL's Implementation Study, which uses interview and survey…

Curriculum-based assessment (CBA) is based on three themes: (1) curriculum provides the most basic and meaningful avenue for classroom assessment; (2) curriculum places explicit demands upon the learner; and (3) curriculum must be controlled for academic success. Research has shown CBA effective in promoting good classroom performance, especially…

Research literature on school health education programs for 1968-78 is reviewed and needs for further research are research are identified. (JMF)

Suggesting that the theory of multiple intelligences, based on the work of Howard Gardnew, is one of the most important and promising developments in education, this booklet provides a look at the theory--what it is and how it differs from other definitions of so-called learning styles--and at the implementations--which ones seem to be truly…

Seven questions are addressed to school officials regarding programs and policies of career/vocational education for handicapped students. Questions touch upon such aspects as curricular scope, continuum of placement and service alternatives, transition services, evaluation procedures, and use of nonschool resources. (CL)

This guide describes practical methods for testing and teaching handicapped children and youth, in either segregated or integrated classrooms, with the focus on developing countries. The first chapter discusses: features of a suitable curriculum; use of a task importance rating scale; and curriculum content, including home environment tasks,…

Following through on the principles and guidelines from the ASCD book Staying Centered: Curriculum Leadership in a Turbulent Era, Steven J. Gross gives the reader a blueprint for extending the legacy of curriculum innovation for 10 years or more. Firsthand accounts from innovative schools and districts flesh out the key challenges to overcome,…

This monograph describes industry at a point in time from the perspective of the faculty in Industrial Education at the University of Minnesota. Section 1 describes the effort to define industry from the perspective of the industrial, business, and economic literature. The remainder of this section is divided into the two components of analysis…

A case-based, problem-oriented, modular curriculum in geriatrics for medical students was evaluated to investigate whether: students would demonstrate cognitive knowledge gain, students' attitudes toward the elderly would change favorably, suggested activities would influence students' ratings, and which institutional characteristics facilitate…

Defining "curriculum documents" as all written forms a curriculum might take (such as philosophy statements, scope and sequence displays, curriculum guides, instructional units, resource units, or courses of study), this article provides criteria and an instrument for evaluating such documents. (JM)

A study involved 20 teachers who volunteered to use the horizontal evaluation model. Described are three strong themes that emerged: (1) teachers altered their views about evaluation; (2) teachers challenged the prevailing school practice rationality; and (3) teachers took some modest steps toward changing school relations. (SI)