Article presented a description of the system of scheduling of students in effect at Delbrook Secondary School in North Vancouver in British Columbia. (Editor/RK)

Recommends the integration of death education into the K-12 curriculum at several points, with involvement of multiple school personnel (counselors, teachers, etc.) and preparation of teachers through preservice or inservice training. (NKA)

Presents a planning strategy which a busy social studies teacher may use to create rich resource units that go beyond the single textbook. (SJL)

Information and suggestions are given to serve to motivate and assist those interested in developing a course in test-taking skills and test wiseness. The author lists 11 questions, which should be answered prior to implementing such a course. (Author/KC)

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)

This article describes the initial steps taken to mainstream students classified as "educable mentally retarded" and then presents a twelve step curriculum development procedure for totally mainstreaming such students at a middle school. (Author/RK)

As an innovative, though perhaps temporary, stop-gap measure toward alleviating the problem of supplying paraprofessionals to library systems, especially in secondary schools, the author proposed a career work-study program developed in the area of media technology at the secondary school level. (Author/RK)

This article considers a rationale for a unit approach to teaching social studies, describes the structure of thematic units, identifies four sources of unit themes, outlines the process of developing a thematic unit, and suggests some resources. (Author/SJL)