Describes the award-winning English curriculum of Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks, Alaska, which provides progressive movement through grammar, reading, writing, and study skills, while developing students' self-confidence and awareness of their role in the world. (DMM)

Describes the Center for Civic Education's efforts to develop and disseminate national standards in civics and government for K-12 education. Considers why standards are needed, what the standards are intended to accomplish, how they are being prepared, the groups involved in the development process, and the schedule for completion. Includes a…

Proposes the curricular infusion method (i.e., an alteration of an educational infrastructure by permeating the system with multicultural education) to prepare teachers for public and private elementary and secondary schools. Recommends multicultural education modules for each level of the traditional professional education curriculum. (DMM)

Discusses The Values Project of the Archdiocese of New York, designed to document the ways in which Catholic values were taught across the curriculum in Archdiocese schools. Indicates that the Project used the Education Community Opportunity for Stewardship process of infusion. Describes the process' six steps for infusing values into the…

The Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP) promotes economics education centers at colleges which, in turn, affiliate with local school districts to jointly provide materials and teacher training for effective economics education. This article describes DEEP at the College of St. Thomas and the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese schools.…

Describes how Marymount Academy (Santa Barbara, California) has successfully faced the challenge of religious instruction for its large non-Catholic enrollment by developing a two-track Religious Studies Program. Initial fears that separating children by religion might promote divisiveness were not realized. (Author/SJL)

Offers a model for the integration of technology into the school curriculum. The school described here used an integrated program that empowers students, faculty, administration, and parents to utilize technology for the promotion and enhancement of academic excellence, Christian ethics, and global responsibility. School won a U.S. Department of…

Discusses efforts of the National Center for Social Studies to develop an integrated K-12 social sciences curriculum. Considers the purpose and vision underlying the curriculum development project, the process of developing standards, content themes addressed by the standards, and assessment tasks. Includes vignettes illustrating implementation of…

Describes strategies for designing learning outcomes and performance assessments in religious instruction at Catholic schools. Discusses steps: developing a shared vision, establishing ground rules, defining outcomes and assessments, and designing outcomes and assessments for religion. Includes definitions of outcomes and performance assessments.…

Discusses the role of music in Catholic education and the the Music Educators Division of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM-ME). Describes the development of the National Standards for Arts Education, one of the core subjects of Goals 2000, and the NPM-ME's efforts to integrate the secular curriculum into Catholic education. (MAB)

Compares multicultural, ethnocentric, and Eurocentric curricula. Describes California's multicultural history/social studies framework for high school; multicultural/multiethnic education in Portland, Oregon; and study results regarding New York State's K-12 social studies curriculum. Presents the Archdiocese of New York's efforts to emphasize…

Describes the "Partnerships in Teaching Critical Thinking" project, which links Milwaukee's Alverno College with 22 local schools in efforts to infuse critical thinking across the curriculum. Reviews program activities and three principles for collaboration concerning equal partnerships and ongoing dialogue between K-12 teachers and faculty and…

Describes the Direction 2000 program at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Toronto, which features large subject resource areas instead of classrooms, a schoolwide computer network developed in conjunction with Unisys Canada, computer education across the curriculum, and an automated approach to information retrieval. (DMM)

Outlines six classroom strategies used in a mainstreamed high school biology course and describes some of the changes Catholic University is making through a dean's grant to integrate preparation for mainstreaming into its preservice teacher education program. (SJL)

Describes in-service training programs provided by the Cleveland diocesan education office for Catholic educators. Focuses on efforts to improve drug prevention, science, and computer education. (DMM)