Describes a program developed at Christian County High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, that utilizes three different levels of instruction with two different curriculums under each level to meet the differing needs of students. (SR)

Discusses how the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist College attempted to meet the challenge of rapidly expanding communication media in its region. Describes in particular a core of required and elective courses designed for all communication students and in Applied Communication Studies curriculum. (SR)

The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is at the forefront of national efforts to align high school curriculum to college and career readiness standards. Embarking on a mission it calls A Personal Journey for Next Generation Learners, Maine has employed several key strategies to ensure all of its students graduate from high school with the…

The purpose of this article is to review a partnership between a teacher education department and a dropout prevention program. The partnership developed from a variety of communities' needs, no less of which was that of reconnecting marginalized youth at a local dropout prevention school with their community through cultural and civic…

The major concern of this study was the effect on evaluation data of anonymity and differing time spans between completion of specific programs by students and their responses to anonymous questionnaires. (Author)

Authors examined the challenge of aerospace education, described current activities and offered suggestions to help teachers help their students into the aerospace age. (Editor/RK)

Although undergraduate enrollment in communication curricula grew during the 1970s, only a limited number of small colleges developed their offerings in the mass communications area. Faced with developing a mass communication curriculum and launching a new department with limited staff and equipment resources, one small Pennsylvania college…

Intended for parents of gifted and talented children as well as for teachers and administrators, the handbook provides an overview of gifted education while describing one district's program model. The district's philosophy, goals and objectives, and definition of giftedness are set forth, followed by a list of learning and behavioral…

Consideration is given to the way in which the foundational ideas of Kohlberg, Dewey, and Piaget have been extended in educational practice in relation to the way in which conclusions from research are used to guide program construction. (Author/KM)

The career education program in Santa Barbara has found social studies appropriate and desirable as a vehicle through which the teacher can assist the student to learn more about the world and some of the alternative career choices he can make. (Author/KM)

Experimental programs in Covinia Valley School District have successfully incorporated career education into the secondary social studies program through refocussing a number of classroom units along the principels of awareness, planning, preparation, and decision making. (Author/KM)

Discussed the concept of career education and the educational features of vocational-technical schools. (RK)

Briefly describes an instructional program based on the individual needs of students that was designed for grades K-8. (EB)