Excerpted here from an address presented to the Indiana Association of Secondary School Principals, this article focuses on how community education programs can help solve some of the crises schools face today as they search for relevancy and meaning. (Editor)

The author suggests that parents are alienated from the educational domain, and discusses how this might be alleviated. He encourages them to take an active role in the educational community, and not delegate to "experts" their educational decision-making authority as parents. (Author/KC)

Presents chapter one of TOWARD CIVILIZATION, the National Endowment for the Arts report on arts education in the United States. Discusses what basic arts education is and why it is important, describing impediments to its implementation and its current status. Offers recommendations for developing an arts curriculum. (GEA)

This article aims to make a critical analysis of the African attempts at vocationalizing the school curriculum, looking at certain major issues with the views of one prominent critic, Philip Foster, in mind. (Author/CT)

An experimental athletic training curriculum offered as part of teacher preparation at West Virginia University is described. (PBS)

This article describes a mass media course called "Communications Skills." It stresses the involvement of students in creating their own productions thus stimulating them toward making a professional product. (RK)

This monograph describes a variety of approaches to understanding how cost and quality are related and offers analytical tools. The analyses focus on the direct cost of instruction for a course, a course of study, or an academic program and do not include related support services such as the library or academic computing. Following an introductory…

The National Literacy and the National Numeracy Strategies (NLNS) are part of the British government's major education reform initiative, an attempt to significantly raise standards of achievement in schools. This report is a summary of the first annual report from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto…

Describes an early childhood program for 120 disadvantaged students, ages three to five, developed by the Green County of Eutaw, Alabama, funded under Title III, E.S.E.A., and based on a three component model: community, inservice, and instruction. (JM)

Article focuses on the dearth of misinformation on drug education and suggests programs designed to correct the problem. (RK)

Differing views of a curriculum project led to ineffective implementation of the program, and subsequent failure to promote desired educational changes. (JB)