Background: In this case study, multiple participants in a large urban school district used the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model to guide development of a district wellness policy. The model's health education component is highlighted, focusing on concerns for special needs students and ones speaking English as a New…

After rejecting the extremes of complete coordination and no coordination in answering the question posed in the title, authors make the case for the middle ground. They then proceed to emphasize some points they consider essential to any educational program. (Editor/RK)

Differing views of a curriculum project led to ineffective implementation of the program, and subsequent failure to promote desired educational changes. (JB)

Team planning in Kentucky provides the curriculum materials specialist with competent assistance. (Editor)

The author suggests that schools facing the challenge of declining enrollment and reduced budgets should seek community and student input on educational priorities and should review their programs to find more flexible options. (SJL)

The Michigan Adoption Program (MAP) helps match school district needs such as technical assistance and in-service training with well-developed successful programs in other districts. (CMV)

The problems involved in articulating course offerings in two-year and four-year institutions and the transfer of students and efforts at a solution are discussed. (Editor)

The coordination of student personnel and academic programs is one need of American higher education. The best possibilities for integrating the efforts of student personnel workers and academicians lie in the initiation and maintenance of programs of organized faculty advisement. The applied task of advising and counseling students draws upon…

Against a background of declining student performance and fragmented programs, the Oakland (California) Unified School District reorganized its reading programs and instructional support personnel. This included reorganization of the central office, new positions, and a new department of curriculum and instruction. An instructional strategy…

The Architecture Study Planning Group (ASPG) makes 62 recommendations for architecture education in Ontario's universities. Based on these recommendations, the Council of Ontario Universities makes several observations about the state of the discipline: that (1) architecture programs are basically sound, but would benefit from greater…

Provides a model for the Career Specific Basic Education curriculum development process for joint use by teachers of a career content area and teachers of basic education. Components of the model described are task analysis, preliminary assessment of basic education competencies, the curriculum development team, collecting materials, and…

Advocates the continued administration of public relations courses within the journalism curriculum. (RL)

The professional literature contains many definitions and conceptualizations of PPBS, but basically it is a term applied to a set of interrelated organizational activities. (Author)

The success or abortion of any major innovation is dependent on the involvement of all factions of the school faculty. Each holds a key to the improvement of instruction. The role of the curriculum worker in career education is to recognize the potential relationships among and between each of the components and catalyze syntheses to help…