Results of a 1977 suvey of broadcast research coursework in higher education revealed that less than 50% of the institutions responding were teaching any of seven identified broadcast research topics. This study, a follow-up of the 1977 survey, sought to ascertain how research topics are treated in the undergraduate curriculum and to assess the…

One urgent practical problem faced by speech communication educators is the need to educate students with a serious concern for their subsequent employability. The shrinking academic job market for speech communication graduates is a reality with which speech communication educators must be concerned. Speech communicators are beginning to ask…

This document was prepared by elementary school counselors in reply to a request for professional input in determining necessary competencies for the certification of elementary school counselors in Pennsylvania. In general, it was found the consultants were in agreement in generating a program that was developmental in focus rather than…

This paper suggests that the general physical education curriculum in colleges and universities should reflect the changing attitudes toward physical activity in our society. A program of physical education should provide a series of guidelines to the student that will become a foundation for continued biological awareness of the body and for…

The imaginative use of new resources, new special education teaching roles and new technology all contribute to making public school both socially and economically feasible for blind children. (Editor)

Structural and functional characteristics of legal education define law learning in terms that determine, through the kind of professionals it trains, the strongest possibilities for societal use of law. (Author/KE)

English legal history should continue to be taught in our law schools because it does provide context for the study of American law, but it has long been a question how much of that context has value in training for actual practice. (Author/KE)

The results of the study suggest a need for comprehensive and systematic research to test the concentricity of the curriculum with the workplace. (Author)

Social studies departments today face the challenge of how to successfully orchestrate four major components of curricula change -- staff concerns, evaluating the curriculum, course content, and restructuring the curriculum. (Author)

Based on a paper presented at the 11th National Conference on Physicians and Schools, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1967.

This document is a revised edition of the 1967 Guidelines to Mathematics, K-6, and is thought to reveal few changes in detail and no changes of substance. The guidelines are seen as firmly rooted in the successful curriculums of the past while encouraging changes appropriate to the needs of students who will be adults in the computer age. Major…