By not considering the meaning of art, schools easily find a superficial niche for the arts in the curriculum. Thus, art education is usually viewed as a diversion designed for recreation or as a "carrot" to attract students to the larger curriculum. Its peripheral position is revealed by the miniscule amount of time allotted it, the lack of goals…

Author discussed the deportment and attitudes of the girls at the York Way open class, attached to the Starcross School, and the influence the school has on influencing the girls from becoming truants. (RK)

This article describes an immensely successful responsibility-generating teaching format implemented in the undergraduate psychology curriculum at Los Angeles City College. (Editor)

Although students' motivation is crucially important, present curriculummodels focus more attention on objectives than on how to engage students' interest and effort. Proposes a method to clarify discussions of how children can be motivated in order to make explicit the consequences for curriculum design. Describes its use in the current work of…

This essay intended to carry the argument about curriculum content and methods in secondary education onto new ground. (Editor/RK)

The author discusses the relevance of a modular system to adult education programs and explains how a tentative module system for workers' education was set up in Zambia. (Author/JB)

This final report on the American Association of School Administrators' 1980 Summer Instructional Leadership Conference includes information on the background and scope of the project, a list of presenters and their topics, and plans for future programs. In addition, abstracts of 20 papers presented at the conference are appended. (WD)

This article discusses the notion that three radically different deep structures operate in literature education today, providing a useful way to examine and describe a culture's influence on its literature curricula. The structures are identified as (1) imitative--assumes that literature forms a heritage and that reading, absorbing, and imitating…

The paper cross references test items with curricula used in the Macomb (Illinois) 0-3 Regional Project for rural handicapped and high risk infants and toddlers. The procedure is explained to determine whether the activities a child experiences relate to the test items used at the conclusion of that child's learning period. Three tests (The…

Three addresses from the Conference are presented in full, with panel reactions to the third. Glenn Leggett of Grinnell College spoke of the need to unite special and general education. More independent study in the sophomore year and interdisciplinary seminars at the senior level would help delay the choice of major, thus providing exposure to…

A frame of reference is needed in educating information professionals to grow and be effective in the future. Information professionals need sensitivity to information, its organization, and technological impacts on society, as well as the abilities to diffuse information and perceive analogy across the information field. Six subject areas to…