Discipline-based art education (DBAE) is an approach to art education that draws upon four art disciplines: art production, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics. This handbook is designed to help art specialists and supervisors, classroom teachers, teacher educators, museum educators, and school administrators to understand and implement…

Heritage education is defined as teaching and learning about U.S. history and culture. It is an interdisciplinary approach to education that encompasses subjects like architecture, art, community planning, social history, politics, conservation, and transportation. This guide is intended to help persons identify information about heritage…

This publication is a guide to resources for alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs aimed at college youth. The first section offers 20 facts emphasizing the seriousness of drug and alcohol abuse among college students, including the following: of the current student body in the United States, 2 or 3 percent will eventually die from…

This booklet provides suggested activities that can be used to enrich the observance of Missouri Day, a day commemorative of Missouri history. The document includes a chart specifying the date of Missouri day from 1990 through 1995, always the third Wednesday of October. Activities are recommended for primary, elementary, middle, and secondary…

This digest provides background information and sources that help in understanding the concept of educational technology. Specific answers are provided to the following 12 questions: (1) What is educational technology? (2) What are the roots of educational technology? (3) What is a good source of research findings? (4) What do educational…

This catalog describes local programs in the eight models of academic/vocational curriculum integration on the secondary level identified by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE). The roster highlights models from nearly every state, representing a cross-section of rural, suburban, and urban school districts. Each model…

This document features an annotated bibliography of social studies materials from a variety of media and prepared by the Department of Public Instruction of North Carolina. Materials listed include books, books in a series, reference books, filmstrips (sound), and video cassettes. (DB)

Provides a more exact solution to the motion of a pendulum through use of elliptic integrals and the perturbation theory of Kryloff and Bogoliuboff. (CP)

Discussed the curriculum ingredients that gave the scope and autonomy necessary to implement curriculum objectives across the student ability range. (Author/RK)

The Commission Three report, one of a series of conference reports of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE), addresses the problems of teacher training, developing links with the community, and the kinds of instructional resources to use in teaching secondary language and literature. (RB)

There are more than 4.8 million patents in the U.S. Patents File. It is the most comprehensive collection of technological information in the world. By their nature, patents are "teaching" documents, and are used as a source of basic information, as a vehicle for teaching critical and creative thinking, and in many school "invention programs."…

Divided into nine sections, this reference guide provides sources of information on the dissemination and practice of distance education, access to programs and agencies concerned with distance learning and telecourses, and bibliographic citations for evaluation studies that have researched the effectiveness of telecourses as instructional tools.…

Designed to make quality Canadian materials known to teachers, librarians, and administrators, this annotated bibliography lists materials in the following categories: activity books, art, hobbies and crafts, business education law, Canadian studies, geography, guidance, health, home economics, language and literature, Manitoba history,…

The East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP) of Columbia University is a national effort whose goal is to support education about Asia at the secondary and elementary levels. The project has developed a variety of curriculum resources and collaborated with state and local educators in designing teaching units about various countries. Each of these…

This module provides information about the development of evaluation strategies and mechanisms for vocational education programs. Sample evaluation strategies are provided using a transition programming example. The guide includes a list of definitions and uses a question-and-answer format to discuss the rationale for program evaluation, beginning…