The Conceptual Curriculum Network is a model for curriculum planning that identifies essential aspects of curriculum planning, indicates flow within the planning process, and explains the interrelationship of essential aspects of the planning. (Author/IRT)

Change mythology vs. change reality introduces this summary of program descriptions by several principals and a frank discussion of what's ahead for their schools. (Editor/RB)

Most students have the competence and the right to make significant decisions concerning their own learning if they are provided appropriate leadership, and high school principals must assume responsibility for initiating that leadership and ensuring its continuity. (Author)

It is especially important that junior high and middle school teachers recognize the importance of interrelating curriculum areas. Details how this goal was achieved at one junior high school. (Editor/RK)

Describes a number of law study programs, and tells the reader how to get the help of the organized bar, law schools, and national projects in beginning a law study program. (Editor)

Discusses successful curriculum development through cooperation of the school board and the community. Examples of successful curriculum projects are given. (Author/LD)

To help students become effective information users from a variety of resources, librarians at one Illinois high school designed a before-school inservice training program, produced a 10-minute video illustrating the research process, and developed tie-ins to each department supporting the curriculum taught by content-area teachers. (14…

The societal effects of rapidly changing technologies signal the need for an educational system combining the best in vocational and academic learning. Career paths join a liberal arts academic core with hands-on technological options. A New Hampshire high school's tech-prep/school-to-work partnership with local higher education institutions and a…

School violence is more likely in schools located in high-crime areas, in large schools with large classes, in schools containing a large percentage of male students, and in schools with weak administrators. The "Practical Intelligence" curriculum enables middle-school youths who are not classically successful students to make a contribution and…