This document reports on a physical education teacher's attempts to design a physical education curriculum that would meet the needs and interests of students who were no longer required to take physical education due to changed graduation requirements. The report's first section provides an introductory overview of the problem and the teacher's…

This study was conducted to identify a difference between preschool teachers' and school-based administrators' perceptions of critical issues and the numerical ranking assigned to those issues in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' (North Carolina) Chapter 1 Preschool Program. The study tested three hypotheses, and sought to ascertain what teachers…

A study investigated the effects of a fine arts program on elementary school students relative to methods used, student development, student attitudes toward school, and student achievement and motivation to learn. After developing and implementing a 12-week integrated fine arts curriculum, 95 elementary school students' pre- and…

Integrating a library skills curriculum requires that school library media programs be able to schedule instruction flexibly. Flexible scheduling describes a program in which the learning experiences of students are based on need rather than on routine weekly visits to the library media center for class instruction. To determine the factors that…