Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of mental disorders and risk behaviours. Whole-school interventions hold vast potential in improving mental health and preventing risk behaviours in this developmentally-sensitive cohort. Modelled on the World Health Organisation's Health-Promoting Schools Framework, whole-school interventions…

Barry M. Franklin's new work uses the concept of community as a lens for interpreting urban school reform since 1960. Focusing on the curriculum and employing case studies, he applies the concept to reform initiatives in a number of city school systems. Included are compensatory education, community control, mayoral takeovers, educational…

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in education. SSAT has a membership of over 5,500 schools and growing numbers of affiliated universities, colleges and local authorities. This paper presents SSAT's plan which sets out its…

The conventional school curriculum has largely ignored the local community. School-based fieldwork projects patterned after "Foxfire" can bridge the gap between classroom and community. (Author/MLF)

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in secondary education. SSAT has a membership of over 5,300 schools and growing numbers of affiliated universities, colleges and local authorities. This corporate plan sets out SSAT's main work for…

Outlines a five year old student leadership program in a New York state high school. This is a year-round multi-faceted program that serves the needs of students, school, and community. (MD)

Schools have become separated from society and social issues through the practice of "transition education." More specifically, by stressing the preparation of students for society, schools accept the present structure of society as a given and therefore neglect their responsibility to educate. Since schools play an educational role in…

Secondary school students in Pine River, Minnesota, need enough common knowledge to compete with graduates of other schools, but educators must keep in mind--as they move toward a more uniform curriculum--that each community is unique. (Author/RW)

Describes a workshop convened by UNESCO in Peru at which students, community members, teachers, and specialists contributed ideas for improving environmental education. Discussed are workshop objectives, activities during the three weeks, and documents and activities developed by the group. (AV)

The Salt Lake City schools' Health Careers Program gives junior and senior high school students who are considering medical profession careers an opportunity to have a two-semester internship experience in the medical field. Students earn credits while investigating various health careers. (MD)

Article investigated the problems of introducing new knowledge in upper secondary curricula, bearing in mind the part played by factors outside the school, and evaluated the consequences new and evolving branches can have upon the organization of studies, curriculum content, teaching methods, and upper secondary teacher education. (Author/RK)

A three-year project in the Watertown (S. D.) Public Schools was designed to produce greater integration of career education into the existing curriculum of all grades. Individual development was emphasized in the elementary and junior high programs, with more emphasis placed on specific decision-making situations during the final years of high…

Described is a history education project of the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System which shows that archives can be both repositories and disseminators of information. A curriculum packet composed of facsimiles of local government records for use in secondary school history classes was developed. (RM)

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in secondary education. It has a membership of over 4900 schools and organisations. SSAT works with head teachers, teachers and students to encourage them to develop and share new and effective…

Article described ways in which private and public schools can cooperate in joint ventures, outlining one program that was developed by a public and private school in California. (RK)