Introduction: The Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and the Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC) are useful measures to assess how children with visual impairments are meeting the nine areas of the expanded core curriculum (ECC). Each item of the CAPE and PAC includes an activity with an accompanied image to…

Johnson and Rakestraw describe the Winthrop University-School Partnership Network (WUSP) as a dynamic, diverse, and growing group of participants from nine school districts, thirty schools, multiple university programs, and community organizations. As a Network, they are working to emulate John Goodlad's (1984) vision "in order to improve…

Describes the Morse Academic Plan (MAP) of New York University's College of Arts and Sciences. The MAP replaces the former distributional requirement as a general education curriculum. It has increased the involvement of regular faculty in undergraduate general education and concentrated general education course work early in students' careers.…

How can the "relevance" problem be solved in secondary schools where a feeling of novelty about "open-space" has evaporated? The proposed solution is an "Updated" Core Curriculum which uses pupil-teacher planning techniques based on "Great Books" question categories and borrows liberally from values clarification procedures. (Author/NQ)

Core and other "soft" programs are vulnerable in the current educational and financial climate. Evaluation, communication, and involvement can help save them. (Author/MLF)