Discusses briefly the curriculum at the Robert E. Lee High School, called the International School of the Americas. Notes that, although still in flux, the curriculum offers a new model for high schools in the United States that have been caught up in the demands of an expanding international community. (RS)

Describes British Columbia's government-mandated Career and Personal Planning (CAPP) curriculum in its major implementation stage at two schools during the 1996-97 school year. Suggests that the differing approaches to implementing the CAPP curriculum at the two schools demonstrates how schools can use existing approaches and value systems to…

Describes the creation, implementation, and assessment of Connecticut's Common Core of Learning, the state board's new standard which articulates its vision of an educated citizen, in terms of attributes and attitudes, skills and competencies, and understandings and applications. (SR)

Describes a program developed at Christian County High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, that utilizes three different levels of instruction with two different curriculums under each level to meet the differing needs of students. (SR)

Teachers of literature and composition believe that they are doing the right thing by teaching literary analysis and encouraging students to assume the intellectual rigor of serious study of the language arts. However, the teaching of these courses is seldom justified with reasons other than the practical ones of going to college or finding a job.…

Describes a program designed for learning disabled adolescents that offers them instruction in the regular curriculum supplemented with direct and indirect services from trained special education teachers. (FL)

Describes how one professor challenges students to critically consider issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in their educational relationships, and how she deals with their resistance to considering that racism and sexism are institutionalized. Discusses responsive and responsible curriculum development, critical and feminist…

Competency testing is only one component of competency-based education (CBE); the others are: educational objectives, instructional process, remedial instruction, and program evaluation/reconceptualization. To implement only competency testing may result in disillusionment with the entire concept of CBE, which seeks to improve programs, not fail…

The Curriculum Leadership Institute (CLI) and classroom teachers working in conjunction with Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, developed the Lesson Plan Resource system. The CLI is a not-for-profit school consulting and publishing firm, also based in Emporia, Kansas, whose curriculum development model is used in over 1,000 schools in…

Describes a collaborative project in which university faculty members, graduate students, public and private school teachers, and sixth and seventh grade students worked closely together to develop and evaluate a new middle school social studies curriculum. (HOD)

Describes a program initiated at a high school in New York City that identified learning styles of special education students in an effort to increase their achievement. Concludes that the program led to gains in motivation as well as achievement. Contains materials used to identify learning styles. (FL)