How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools become places where everyone is learning from each…

An interdisciplinary team of science and education faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago and several Chicago-area community colleges developed and implemented a series of four integrated, inquiry-based science courses for preservice elementary school teachers. All four courses are based on guiding principles taken from the rich…

Discusses the content of and rationale behind the steady expansion of natural science instruction during the past 20 years at all school levels, in all types of schools in West Germany. Follows the content versus process orientation debates that have characterized curriculum reform in the natural sciences. (DB)