Author suggests an addition to the school staff, one who can evaluate proposed changes in terms of the school's long-range objectives. (SP)

Authors feel that television is a potent force in the educational process but a sense of discrimination must be developed within the student-viewer. (Authors)

Argues that there is often a variance between the curriculum approved by the school district and that delivered by the classroom teacher. Proposes mastery learning as a means of avoiding this variance. (FL)

Reprints an article originally published in 1949. Determines the relative effects on learning of problem-centered and subject-centered units of instruction. Finds that pupils learned significantly more factual information and made more connections of specific rules of action with their corresponding facts with the problem type. Suggests that…

Addresses some of the major issues discussed in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Discusses possible reasons for student avoidance of math and science courses. (EL)

Discusses the components of curriculum alignment (agreement among stated objectives, instructional program, and assessment program) and presents the results and conclusions of a statewide curriculum alignment survey of the principals of Connecticut's public high schools. (SR)

Describes a collaborative project in which university faculty members, graduate students, public and private school teachers, and sixth and seventh grade students worked closely together to develop and evaluate a new middle school social studies curriculum. (HOD)

Examines the controversy over what should make up core curriculum and whether topics such as values clarification, visual literacy, thinking skills, and computer literacy should be included in such curriculum. (JC)