This school integrates an outdoor, farm experience with an urban school curriculum. Elementary students spend increasing lengths of time working on a country farm as a mandatory requirement. Activities include farm chores, nature hikes, household chores, and practical crafts. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds and incomes. (MA)

A program designed for the highly qualified recent high school graduate making a commitment to a dental career provides early student contact with the dental school and its programs, reduces the years required for a dental degree, and combines predental and dental education. The program's first-year results are mixed. (MSE)

The effectiveness of a one-semester health education course for preservice elementary school teachers that would explore the philosophy and trends of health education while developing a personal philosophy of wellness is examined. Course design, goals, scope, and sequence of a preservice health course are presented. (DF)

The process of developing an elementary art curriculum intended for national distribution is described. Emphasis is on the theoretical and practical criteria employed in making curriculum decisions. (Author/RM)

Describes Project Design, a curriculum concept being implemented in Ontario schools, in which groups of students are given the opportunity to contribute to the selection and design of a material object or system which they subsequently construct, test, and evaluate. Project focus in on basic learning experiences which involve multidisciplinary…

This centralized system permits matching patients' care needs with students' learning needs and enables assignment of students to appropriate agencies. (Editor)

Discusses the undergraduate liberal arts chemistry curriculum of Drew University which emphasizes preparation of students either for a chemistry vocation or for medical or other science careers. Indicates that interdisciplinary training, articulation of courses to students' background, and elimination of traditional course organization are main…

Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (Editor)

Discusses some options for the education of preservice and inservice teachers in the utilization of microcomputers. Notes the development of areas of concentration in microcomputer applications within existing masters and doctoral programs and the consideration of a 15-semester-hour certificate program in microcomputer applications for teachers.…

Provides a brief analysis of the rationale, organization, and procedures that Baruch College uses in its interdisciplinary program in Business and Public Communication. (RL)

Describes a humanistic, child-oriented science program for gifted students. Stresses open structure, varied learning styles, and experimentation. (MA)

The author asserts that the presentation of women's studies courses as dialogic experiences can play a key role in the whole movement toward humanistic education. Practical concepts for the learning/teaching process are presented as well as curriculum units for a course entitled "Sex Roles in Education." (Author/HLM)

Describes Mathematics in Context, a middle-level mathematics curriculum developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. Instead of proceeding from a generalization to specific examples, the math originates in real problems; conversely, the mathematics learned is used to solve…

The design of the law school curriculum at the University of Notre Dame, in which every professor in every course is expected to discuss ethics along with substantive, theoretical, and procedural law, is described. (MSE)