Describes an approach to program evaluation that is for the people within a school and that is intended to be done by them and for their purposes. (FL)

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

The author discusses various characteristics and studies that suggest what a good school is. He also gives various criteria for judging a good school. (MF)

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)

The author suggests a simple three-stage model as a guideline for systematic curriculum evaluation: evaluation of goals; collection, organization, and analysis of data; and decision making. (Author)

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)

Asserts that a major challenge in the language arts curriculum is to continue including expressive oral language activities amid requirements for more written-language activities. Claims that there are three tasks for curriculum workers interested in oral language: develop rationales; plan curriculum sequences; and implement evaluation of…

Suggests that one can gain an overview of the coverage and balance of a multi-course social studies curriculum by placing the different courses, by total semesters taught, in these three pairs of course categories: American Studies/World Studies; U.S. History/Non-U.S. History; and History/Contemporary Studies. (Author/SJL)

Explains cultural literacy as defined by E. D. Hirsch and outlines the positions of those who criticize Hirsch's position. (NH)

Discusses three recent attempts to establish national science-education standards: "Project 2061: Science for All Americans"; the National Research Council's national standards for curriculum, teaching, and assessment; and the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Suggests that such reform movements could provide useful direction to local…

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)