The most obvious curricular implication of the shorthand/word processing issue appears to be that students who aspire to secretarial careers will be transcribing from both shorthand notes and recorded diction. Skill development in both these areas should be practiced. (TA)

Teachers will use this edition, completely updated from the important 1997 publication, to make sound decisions about instructional programs and materials. They'll find a broad and balanced perspective for building a practice around the best possible evidence-based reading research. This new edition includes: Expanded core understandings with…

Career Education in its broadest sense could be the study of technology, or analysis of the ways in which a social group provides for its material needs. (Author)

Contends that curriculum fragmentation does not exist, and that unless children develop a command of the details of any given body of knowledge, they will not be able to use their powers of critical and creative thinking. (Author/MLF)

Notes the importance of developing listening skills through direct instruction. Identifies specific listening skills and suggests how to teach them. Describes how both teachers and students can develop a listening skills curriculum. (MM)

Discusses the evolution of literacy in American society and considers the importance of information and media literacies. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is used as a framework to describe a set of intellectual skills and abilities that students are expected to master, and examples of activities are included. (LRW)

The national standards introduced in 1998 are now taught in today's family and consumer sciences (FCS) classes in secondary schools around the country. The national standards shape the curriculum by addressing content, processes, and outcomes. Over the course of the 3 years of project planning and development, every state was involved in one or…

This article traces the history of the Conceptual Physical Education (CPE) movement and the important role this movement has played in college and university physical education departments in America over the past 50 years. CPE emerged out of basic instruction programs (i.e., skill-based, activity classes) during an era characterized by the…

Papers delivered at a four-day study session on the English Language Arts Curriculum, K-12, in Connecticut schools are presented in this bulletin. The focus of the study was: (1) the current status of English and reading programs and recommendations for their improvement, and (2) suggestions for the improvement of a preliminary draft of a new…

Describes development of an expanded home economics curriculum in Kentucky that emphasizes learning of basic skills and their applications to home economics-related tasks. (CH)

Two articles address the need for training in management skills as part of the management curriculum and provide a model for teaching management skills based on social learning theory. The approach is characterized as an integration of previously-used management teaching approaches. Identification of critical management skills and issues in…

Trade and industrial educators are finding it necessary to provide individuals with a multiplicity of skills to meet the needs of the nation's scientific and technological complex. The cluster skill concept should be initiated in the pre-employment training program for trade and industrial education. (AG)

Career education places its emphasis on developing personal preferences and on facilitating their implementation. Therefore career education must be comprised of systematic efforts in curriculum planning, guidance, works study programs, and other experiences designed to develop choice making, planning, and employability skills in all students. (KP)

The imparting of knowledge should be approached from the standpoint of equipping students with the skills that will enable them to achieve personal significance in their lives. (CK)

Reprinted from the January 1968 issue of "Business Education Forum. (AP)