An alternative curriculum model in operation at San Andreas High School, Larkspur, California. (MB)

Briefly describes a study which concluded that women who aspire to management careers need special training in areas not covered by on-the-job technical training or management theory. Discussion also covers educational implications, counseling for career planning, and leadership training, with some emphasis on women's special needs. (SH)

Concludes that the logical outcome of a person-oriented curriculum position leads to a re-definition of the function of the school in the society. The schools are seen to be the only potentially controllable agency for humanization left in society. (Author/AM)

Although the majority of our children acquire functional literacy in all the basic skills; become functional, law-abiding, and constructive adults; and become employable, a large number do not. Children are reared in environments that teach three life views--that the objective of life is to work hard, sacrifice the joys of the moment, and indulge…

In the four major speeches presented the question under consideration was basically how can the school curriculum best be developed to enable the individual to realize his potential as an independent entity in a mass society. The first speech, "Individuality, Society, and Education" considers this problem from a philosophical base. In the second,…

Hypothesizing that the dimensions of developmental problems faced by the moderately retarded will be analogous to those faced by the mildly retarded, this study considers the appropriateness of the structure of the Social Learning Curriculum (SLC), originally developed for the mildly retarded, for the moderately retarded. The SLC framework…