Calls for reexamination of English courses, as to content, organization, and procedures. Adds a report of experience with language workrooms at "general education schools" in Bremen, and some suggestions regarding intensive courses. (IFS/WGA)

This paper, presented at the McMaster International Conference on New Directions in the Chemistry Curriculum, discusses the answers to five questions which deal with basic philosophy concerning new chemistry curricula. (HM)

A first aid course for the mentally retarded is described. It adapts the standard American National Red Cross Course to the specific needs of the mentally retarded by use of a multimedia approach. (JMF)

The role of laboratory experience in professional education is discussed. Although laboratory experiments are often expensive and demanding on faculty time, they can offer a unique experience to the veterinary medicine student. (BH)

A narrative describing the content and benefits of a one-semester economics course based on the text, "Choice: An Introduction to Economics" by Augustus J. Rogers III (2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 1974). (SJL)

Presents the comments of a panel of independent school publications advisers regarding the journalism programs and newspaper publication practices at their schools. (GT)

This outline for a high school yearbook course provides a course description and lists student responsibilities, behavioral objectives for each of nine areas, and resource materials. (GT)

Another in a series of articles summarizing results of a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation, discusses the minimal impact of curriculum revision due to the extraordinary social complexity of schools and systems. (Author/MLF)

This is a three-day refresher course. Its intended audience is composed of personnel active in aerospace related fields, but who may not have a degree in aerospace engineering, and aerospace engineers who want to review the fundamentals of flight and gain a historical perspective. (BB)

A residential fieldwork program is described, which is part of a biology course in a one-year teacher-training program. For those students with little expertise in field biology, a course is provided in addition to a school-based tutor. For those with the necessary background, an opportunity is provided to plan and teach a residential course. (BB)

A discussion is presented on what should be taught about orbitals in high school chemistry. (BB)

Provides a rationale for teaching about work in the social studies curriculum, despite concerns that career education is faddish and discourages upward mobility for disadvantaged children. A successful model developed by the Illinois Council on Economic Education helps students understand economic processes and the role of work in their lives.…

A foreign language (FL) teachers' congress held at Mainz in 1976 dealt especially with the level Secondary Grade 1, stressing such topics as course content, research on FL teaching, curriculum building, minimum goals for various target language, orientation courses and honors courses. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Empire State College, a non-traditional unit of the State University of New York, conducted a series of seminars related to the Watergate Affair, at which 23 students took part in this intensive exploration of a Watergate. It provided tremendous opportunity for insight into the concept of seminars within a college. (Author)

This paper describes a seminar in community psychology aimed at providing students paradigms to critically examine the efficacy of concrete community interventions in seven substantive areas. Such paradigms included models of service delivery, conceptualizations of understanding and treating dysfunctions, and time and target dimensions in…