The literature of education reveals a growing concern with the problems of job-related stress and an increasing incidence of burnout among teachers. An understanding of what causes burnout (i.e., to deplete oneself, to exhaust one's physical and mental resources, to wear oneself out by excessively striving to reach some unrealistic expectation)…

In response to a congressional inquiry, the General Accounting Office reviewed the work of five state humanities councils: California, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, and Oregon. Out of about 700 projects funded by these state councils during fiscal years 1982 and 1983, ten were judged by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or state council…

The guidelines address the process-centered curriculum (employs knowledge not merely as a composite of information but as a system of learning) for gifted and talented students at North Penn Senior High School (Lansdale, Pennsylvania). The school's interdisciplinary program focuses on a single theme for each of three years: the humanities for year…

Author has compiled an impressive bibliography with appropriate annotations of recent publications concerned with the alternative school movement. (Editor/RK)

Examines the purpose of the liberal arts college in today's society: to develop graduates who are able to see in the present the trends and implications that are shaping the future. (Author/PG)

Discusses a two-semester college course focusing on the idea that developments in the sciences and the arts together reveal a constant process of mutual influence and cross-fertilization. The course develops this thesis using examples from physics, art, literature, and philosophy from Greek times to the present day. (Author/MLH)

Describes the state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides grants to local institutions through state committees for support of public programs in the humanities which relate to public issues.

The subjective nature of the humanities does not lend itself to expression in behavioral terms. However, because humanities instructors are evaluated by the same "accountability" criteria as teachers of cognitive subjects, they are now stressing the measurable and ignoring the intangible areas of interpretation or even creativity. (Author/DC)

An alternative to the survey approach for teaching history is the team-taught humanities course, that has enjoyed considerable success at Illinois State University, in which history is integrated with art, music, and literature. (Author/ND)

Because of the nature of policy-making and its crucial difference from decision-making, more than empirical knowledge is required. Programs for education educational administrators ought to include the perspective provided by the humanities, particularly history. (Author)

From a special report, "What's New in Curriculum.