The United Nation's Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) aims to prepare students for pressing economic and environmental problems. In this article, I argue that an exclusive emphasis on an ambiguous goal, sustainable development, raises important questions for educational ethics. Specifically, I argue that DESD mission…

Offers a step-by-step guide to course design and development. Includes information on design basics, underlying objectives, course description, evaluation, standards, recordkeeping, and administration. (JOW)

Curriculum design model provides a conceptual basis for ongoing planning and appraisal of the school system by members of the community. (JOW)

Offers the following management strategies: (1) enforce appropriate classroom behavior; (2) post classroom rules; (3) stick to a smooth academic routine; (4) organize the classroom environment; (5) develop a self-checking system; and (6) develop filing strategies. The keys to successful classroom management are careful planning, frequent program…

This paper reviews the literature on integration of home economics at the graduate level; presents a rationale for a core curriculum; describes objectives and delivery of the curriculum; and proposes research needs to evaluate approaches to training doctoral students in an integrated view of home economics. (JOW)

Program evaluation and related research has come a very long way from the quasi-experiment to where it is now seen as having many functions, as being grounded in a range of theoretical positions, and as drawing from a variety of possible methodologies. This paper focuses on evaluating the mathematics programs of limited-English-proficient (LEP)…

Points out that, to keep the work force up to date, business, industry, and labor groups are inviting adult basic educators to design and implement retraining programs at the worksite. Provides suggestion for designing custom-made basic skills instruction using work-related materials. (JOW)

Argues that program evaluation in the teaching of English-as-a- Second-Language is no longer such a well-circumscribed area of activity. Concludes that program evaluation should be systematic, principled, purposeful and context-specific; use the information collected to make balanced judgements; and embody recommendations for curriculum change.…

In this commentary, the author identifies what, in her opinion, has been left out of the discussion of "scale up." She expresses particular concern that the rhetoric of scaling up, and the concomitant assertion of scientific underpinnings for programs brought to scale, may overstate the relation of the developers' programs and program materials to…

The National Institute of Education (NIE) should consider the following observations when implementing curriculum development projects: (1) NIE should support curriculum development in the areas of national need, but more effort should be directed to improving existing instructional materials; (2) NIE-supported materials have not been widely…

A sequential and developmental curriculum design is conceptualized, based on task analysis. Task analysis is a detailed inquiry into actions undertaken in performing specific tasks or jobs. Baseline data form a database on which education and training programs are designed, produced, and evaluated. The following are sources of information for task…

The history, organization, and program offerings of the collegiate Centers for Economic Education (affiliated with the Pennsylvania and Joint Councils on Economic Education) are compared with those of the Private Enterprise Market System. The Private Enterprise Market System is a small, Pennsylvania-based center, whose programs are only beginning…

Joe Renzulli asserts that pull-out programs for gifted elementary school children that reflect horizontal enrichment and vertical acceleration can provide flexibility and enable radical departures from the regular curriculum. Joyce VanTassel-Baska counters that current pull-out programs are inadequately planned, provide insufficient time, are…

Recent policies on quality in British teacher education and different approaches to measuring quality are discussed. It is proposed that the much-debated issue of measurement of educational quality is entwined with certain organizational myths in higher education institutions, but that attempts to disentangle them would be less useful than…

Points out the need for research concerning the effects of media and popular culture on behavior, the current approaches to media education, and the identification of media literacy skills. Lists concerns of teachers about copyrights, suitable resources, staff training, evaluation practices, and curriculum design when teaching media literacy. (KO)