Curriculum storyboards frame learning in clear, compelling ways for students and caregivers. By presenting curricula narratively, students can better grasp connections among concepts and picture learning as a process. Authors and education consultants Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Allison Zmuda share how educators can use storyboarding as a tool to…

The strengths and weaknesses of the fields of curriculum development and instructional development are discussed in a father-and-son letter exchange. (MLF)

In 1985, the National Geographic Society launched a new Geography Education Program to revitalize geography instruction in the nation's schools. Geographic Alliances in 27 states mobilize teachers, administrators, and policymakers to push for improved geography curricula. The society also produces high-impact publications and sponsors special…

Efforts to improve American high schools must center on their most fundamental deficiencies. Out of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's High School Futures Planning Consortium have evolved experience-based principles (outlined in sidebars) that other school leaders can adapt for improving their schools' organization,…

A decade of Canadian research shows that teachers' prior practices influence how technology will be used. There may be trade-offs (in valuable activities) when using new technologies. Teachers often ascribe disproportionate power to computers, allow kids to work on programs with little supervision, and overlook "mouse wars" between…

Realizing he had learned persistence and proficiency for solving software glitches in nontechnical settings, a computer-literate teacher argues that technology should not be elevated at curriculum's expense. Technology is only a means toward achieving educational objectives set for students. (MLH)

Describes efforts to improve the global-education curriculum during mid-1970s involving the teaching of foreign language, geography, and world history and the creation of public schools with an international focus; describes the use of extracurricular activities and technology to enhance global education; discusses challenges still facing the…

Virtual courses and schools--in which the student and the teacher are in different locations--have become commonplace at the university and high school level. Public, full-time virtual schooling for younger students, however, is still on the frontier of education. About a dozen states now offer full-time virtual schools among their public school…