Argues that orienting high school teaching towards the advanced placement test fails, ironically, to prepare students for thinking, writing, and reading skills required in college. Noting that standardized tests promote the (misleading) conception of knowledge as correctness, offers a choice-based method for students to analyze writing function…

Presents the structure of a business communication course that utilizes computers. Describes challenges teachers must face in the areas of computer/software knowledge, keyboarding skills, lab facility, and teaching methods. Emphasizes the benefits of learning to compose and keyboard at the computer, particularly regarding job marketability. (JD)

Lists eight effects that could result from the ruling in "Mozert v. Hawkins County Public Schools." These include widespread censorship, limitation of controversial topics, interference with management of instruction, and disruption of the school day. (MD)

Noting that combining reading instruction with writing instruction is more effective than teaching writing alone, describes and evaluates various sequential activities and exercises to promote involved reading. Includes mapping, summarizing, synthesizing, and critiquing assigned readings, all of which lead to the research paper. (JG)

Describes a writing based course in freshman world literature and summarizes tests, writing assignments, and class activities used in teaching "The Odyssey,""Metamorphoses,""Hamlet," and other works. (JG)

Teaching men about gender in general and masculinity in particular is most effective when a feminist perspective is used to develop tactics of engagement. An argument is made for requiring students to understand the role homophobia plays in maintaining masculine stereotypes and the interdependency of female and male roles. (Author/RM)

The integration of language and culture should be a priority for language teaching and learning in the coming decade. College-level second language instruction should include discussion (but not mastery of) such related aspects as dialects, heuristics, jargon, and social/class differences in pronunciation and language use. (CB)

A survey of 20 public health schools and 240 university schools of nursing found that nuclear war related content was most likely to be appear in disaster nursing and in environmental health courses. Innovative curricula included political action projects for nuclear war prevention. (FMW)

The design and rationale for the University of South Carolina's required credit-bearing freshman orientation course are described, and ways in which the course offering could be made better are discussed. (MSE)

Describes a course offered at Manhattan College which examines some of the ethical problems particular to the field of engineering. Considers religious perspectives on the nature of work and technology. Places special emphasis on case studies. (TW)

Describes a course offered at California Polytechnic State University which is intended to acquaint students with broad value topics concerning science and technology, especially problems and opportunities technologies raise in social, political, economic, and physical environments. (TW)

Describes a course taught at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in which the process of technological change along with cultural and societal responses to these changes are explored. Includes a thematic course outline and the list of course requirements. (TW)

Notes that many teachers who base their teaching on writing process theory have never completed the last stage of the process--publishing one's writing. Relates the experiences of one college instructor who made a course requirement of writing for publication in an education course and recounts his students' reactions. (JC)

Discusses the development of a twentieth century world history course, its possibilities, pitfalls, and rationale. Includes a course outline, readings, audio-visual materials, and discussion topics. (GEA)

Outlines the processes undertaken at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education to identify an appropriate basis for a course to educate information professionals to work in a range of positions inside and outside the library setting. The philosophies, assumptions, and beliefs of the course design team are presented. (Author/CLB)