This article addresses the issue on school policy concerning holidays and outlines some steps schools can take to keep the children and their enrichment as the focus. In the United States, there are many kinds of holidays: religious, cultural, national, and sentimental. School calendars usually honor some of the most prominent of these. If the…

Analyzes and classifies various forms of curriculum development strategies; reviews and summarizes their use in terms of their major characteristics and consequences; analyzes their relative merits with respect to 10 criteria; and, finally, discusses their policy implications. (MLF)

Presents reasons for setting program goals and criteria for an acceptable goal statement, which are illustrated by examples of surveying law and career concepts courses. Discusses sources of goal information and potential problems in the goal setting process. (MB)

Presents a case study of a curriculum project in an Ontario school board to illustrate how researchers can intervene appropriately in the policymaking activities of practicing educators. After discussing and rejecting two traditional models of involvement, illustrates and justifies two practical principles to guide researchers in these situations.…

The delivery of nursing care is enmeshed in the health care policy decisions made at state and national levels. The authors recommend an advanced practice role for nurse policy analysts, examine political decision-making processes that would be included in the curriculum, and give illustrative positions that graduate nurse policy analysts might…

In this critical review of TM 506 654, important design considerations surrounding metapolicy are described as the author argues the main points presented in the aforementioned. (GK)

This paper presents and attacks the argument that curriculum decision making is not a sufficiently recondite area to warrant helmsmanship by theorists, as is advocated by the neo-Platonic view that experts in a field should govern it. A different reason for rejecting control by experts is offered. (Author/SJL)

Recounts changes in the responsibilities of states, school districts, and schools for curriculum development during the past 80 years. (MLF)

Three very powerful drivers of curriculum policy are converging to shape what is taught in American schools: the increasing power of testing and standardized accountability models to determine curriculum, the pressure for cultural literacy, and the educational restructuring movement, which could subordinate curriculum to school organization…

Presents a critical commentary on "Toward an Aristocracy of Everyone" by Parker and Zumeta in the same issue. Comments on the strengths and weaknesses of proposals for public policy curricula in high schools, especially as they are able to contribute to citizenship education. Parker and Zumeta respond to these observations. (DSK)

At present there is a lack of theory that would direct curriculum research, and the National Institute of Education (NIE) could profitably direct its efforts toward the development of curriculum and instructional theories. NIE's thrust into curriculum, in addition, would be most acceptable if it were to dexterously guide curriculum development,…

This paper examines the history of environmental education in New Zealand over the last fifteen years, reviewing that history in the context of concurrent changes in the school curriculum and wider society. Preliminary conclusions concerning the potential role of environmental education as a socially transformative agent are developed as a lens…

The second in a series on the independent school curriculum describes multicultural education, suggests questions to ask the entire school community, and contains a bibliography of multicultural curriculum materials. (Author/MLF)

According to the strategic management approach, the curriculum of a school system is a strategic statement of the system that determines how it selects activities, organizes its resources, and determines how well the system has performed its function within the overall policies it was constructed to implement. (Author/JM)

Reviews developments in technical and vocational education in South Africa: National Qualifications Framework, Curriculum 2005,and enterprise development. Addresses issues of articulation, funding, and market responsiveness. Concludes that practices might be imposed from above and government agencies do not yet have the capacity to develop and…