Middle schools emphasize exploration and articulation designed specifically for 10 to 14-year-olds. Yet the high schools often resist change, creating the possibilities of a traumatic transitional experience. (Author/MLF)

Article emphasizes the need to accommodate other kinds of learning in the regular academic curriculum, such as ecology, human relations, and the use of leisure time. (Editor/GB)

To ensure that curriculum development staff are focusing on student needs, this article suggests a question matrix showing the holistic relationship in the planning, implementation, and outcomes processes and in five interrelated program components (curriculum design, instructional means, resources, staff development, and learning experience).…

Recommendations for including general music in secondary school curriculum can be organized around three themes consistent with America 2000 goals: creating or reinventing curricula, creating better schools, and designing programs for all students. Arts instruction must go far beyond band, choir, and orchestra. General music class could…

Author believes that each school has a pattern of student misconduct followed year after year. He suggests that appropriate curriculum during peak periods of student restlessness could produce better results. (GB)

Suggestions are made for implementing programs that enhance students' self-concept and self-esteem. Eight program activities illustrate examples of what principals can do for students in these areas. (MLF)

Curriculum developers should consider middle level learners' needs for intellectual growth and individual attention and their needs to understand themselves and know others. (MLF)

Briefly reviews educational change since the 1830s, stressing a Fourth Wave model arising from 1980s reform movements. Discusses curricular and instructional changes affecting schools, schooling, and teachers. The Fourth Wave emphasizes a relevant, student-centered curriculum, cooperative learning, mastery learning, teacher teamwork, and a…

Explains the rationale for including art in the general education curriculum and expanding the studio orientation to include art criticism, art history, and aesthetics. Advocates a balanced, integrated curriculum that resembles artists' ways of confronting, experiencing, and producing art and meets students' multicultural needs. (MLH)

Factors influencing the effectiveness of advising programs--including the appropriate purpose, goals, time, and tasks--are discussed. The relationship between advising and curriculum reform and students' freedom of choice, exercise of school ownership, and control of school experience is analyzed as the theoretical base of advising. (MJL)