The following questions are addressed: Why should general social work students need to know about alcoholism/addiction, chemical dependency? What skills are required for assessment of chemical dependency intervention? How can the social work curriculum provide adequate training for work with substance abusers? (Author/MH)

Outlines the importance and the relationship between the teaching of cultural literacy and the teaching of basic skills (such as reading) to students in the early grades. Points out that educators need to reexamine the slogans that undermine the teaching of traditional knowledge to young children. Includes references. (MD)

Data are organized according to age, race, gender, marital status, and geographic region of the country. The research also makes recommendations for vocational education curriculum and instruction to foster effective futuristic thinking skills and develops a methodology to be used to investigate further how individuals perceive the future.…

Describes an attempt to integrate the cognitive and affective domains in a course on values for allied health students by using reflexiveness as the course's structural principle. This course's reflexive structure included opportunities for the students to reflect critically on value questions, an interconnected system of educational stages, and a…

Venipuncture is the single most commonly performed procedure that causes pain to the patient, and its mastery is a highly visible milestone both in physical skills and personal manner. A training program at Georgetown University Hospital is described. (MLW)

Discusses the support for higher-order skills in the secondary school and vocational curricula, the need for higher-order skills in the marketing curriculum, methods of teaching higher-order skills, and implications for teacher education. (CT)

Department chairpersons of business education departments were asked to rank a list of 18 challenges facing business education by use of a Q-Sort. The most important challenges were seen to be updating and changing the business education curriculum to meet present and future students' needs and updating and developing the skills and knowledge of…

Discusses need for development of keyboarding skills at the elementary school level; issues to be addressed when developing keyboarding curricula (criterion for competence, how much is necessary, time needed, who should teach and how); and program considerations (hardware, curriculum, principles of instruction, instructional periods, classroom or…

The author shares some thoughts about faculty development, with the intended purpose of being responsive to the lagging relationship between the increasing availability of microcomputers and a business faculty's ability to integrate more effectively that technology into business curricula. A faculty development effort is suggested. (CT)

The Daily Physical Education Program was designed to incorporate fitness activities and skill development into the regular school curriculum in Australia. This program has produced measurable results in fitness, skill, and social development without affecting academic performance. (DF)

Proposes a comprehensive curriculum plan that views reading as a continuing process. (FL)

The utilization of skill standards in the curriculum development process has become an increasingly prominent aspect of the reform movement in career and technical education (CTE) over the past 10 years. Data were collected across 10 CTE program areas from a nationally representative sample of community colleges. The authors discuss the extent to…

Describes a program designed for learning disabled adolescents that offers them instruction in the regular curriculum supplemented with direct and indirect services from trained special education teachers. (FL)

American pharmacy practice education, it is suggested, has been strongly influenced by its identity with the university and efforts to fullfill the philosophical goals of higher education. The transition from technological skill development to science education was a reaction to the universities' expectations. (Author/MLW)