Given the aging of the population, the need for an increased number of persons trained and educated in gerontology is evident. To date, gerontology curricula have been based upon institutional requirements and interests, such as the guidelines provided by the Foundations Project (1980). To expand these guidelines, the needs and interests of the…

Author visited China in April, 1972 and reported here on his impressions. (Editor/RK)

Remarks made at the Faculty Convocation of the University of Connecticut, October 24, 1968.

Being more than managers, school leaders can advance the profession by initiating a comprehensive curriculum development process that examines the future to determine needed skills and knowledge, redefines what constitutes an educated person and good teaching, creates a mission statement, and considers the need for structural or organizational…

Describes how one school district has been able to expand its curriculum offerings at very little cost by offering mini-enrichment courses on Saturday mornings. (DN)

Describes an educational program which responds to the need for greater cooperation between students and the community, and suggests ways for independent schools to become more efficient. (RK)

Examines how service learning is being conceptualized by compositionists, particularly through the trope of community, to consider how it functions as a practice and topic in the discipline. Considers how educators position themselves and their students as practitioners of service-learning. Considers what the relationship of that learning to the…

Describes a fund raising project, the "palette of prizes," to raise money for theatre for children in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Discusses creation of theater presentations involving nearly the entire student body. Suggests 11 lessons for other communities interested in using Blair County's arts education programming as a model. Discusses…

This is a comprehensive guide to developing a school-based K-12 drug prevention program. It is comprised of three booklets: (1) Policy--how to construct and implement a workable school drug policy; (2) Curriculum--complete and age-appropriate learning activities for students containing essential drug information and information on developing a…

This paper describes the curriculum that immigrant children encountered when they entered the New York City public schools at the beginning of the twentieth century. Focusing on the interaction between the curriculum and one group, East European Jews, the paper examines: (1) what the schools were attempting to teach Jewish and other immigrant…

Describes a long range planning project called "Redesign" which is now in operation in the Palo Alto Unified School District in California. (GB)

This document contains case studies of school-based decision sharing in New South Wales, Australia. Each study examines issues such as goals of the program, implementation, problems, and success factors. Examples of topics discussed in the case studies include parent and community involvement, the school advisory council, and staff involvement in…

The purposes of this first phase of a state environmental education plan are: (1) to present the goals and objectives of environmental education for the state, and (2) to identify responsibility for providing leadership and guidance in meeting the objectives. The plan provides the framework within which detailed action plans will be developed in…

The 14 documents and articles in this annotated bibliography include discussions that attempt to define or delimit what curriculum planning and evaluation are as well as discussions that address more specific aspects of the topic, such as the board of education role in the curriculum, decentralization's effect on the curriculum, participative…

This project was initiated through the discussions and efforts of a number of parents, principals, teachers, and representatives of the College of Education of the University of Maryland. It was developed as an innovative educational project designed to provide support and supplementary services to the educational program in seven schools in upper…