A CURRICULUM DESIGN WHICH APPEARS APPROPRIATE TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS IS DESCRIBED. BECAUSE OF RAPID CHANGE AND HIGHLY VARIABLE INDIVIDUAL GROWTH PATTERNS, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS THE MOST DIVERSE STUDENT BODY OF ANY SCHOOL UNIT. VARIED THOUGH THE STUDENTS MAY BE, DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS AT THIS AGE INCLUDE ACHIEVING SELF-UNDERSTANDING TO REACH A…

THE RESULTS OF TWO CONFERENCES THAT CONSIDERED A COMMON CORE OF LEARNINGS FOR COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY MAJORS ARE REPORTED. AT THE FIRST CONFERENCE DURING FEBRUARY 1964, EIGHT UNIVERSITIES WERE REPRESENTED. IT IS REPORTED THAT ALL INSTITUTIONS HAVE INAUGURATED CORE PROGRAMS WHICH ATTEMPT TO TREAT THE WHOLE SPAN OF BIOLOGY FOR BEGINNING…

The author proposes a new business core curriculum to overcome current criticisms of postsecondary business education. The objectives outlined are development of professional attitudes, communication skills, and leadership potential. (CH)

Describes a media studies program that allows undergraduates to develop a speciality (such as broadcast sales) within a liberal arts program and communications core curriculum. (PD)

To overcome the fragmentation of secondary school curricula, the authors argue for a core curriculum of cluster courses, allowing students to acquire required skills and pattern their options. They suggest clusters in languages, business, histroy, art, home economics, and industrial education, alternating through four years of the curriculum. (JW)

This summary report presents program evaluation outcomes for the Practicum component of the Schools Attuned Program. Practicum Sessions build upon the knowledge and skills gained from the Core Course. The three key elements of Practicum include: (1) Building Community; (2) Skill Development; and (3) Extended Learning. The analyses included in this…

This paper utilizes a sociocultual perspective to argue that content literacy development and subject content learning are inseparable and that it is every classroom teacher's responsibility to support all students' academic language/literacy (LL) development needed for the learning of relevant content. Through an analysis of the New Jersey Core…

Physical education is still required and receives increasing emphasis. (Editors)

Author is very critical of the Newman Report and its implications for university education. The Carnegie Report, on the other hand, gives sound suggestions for the directions universities must take to keep abreast of changing educational needs. (LF)

Educators in technical education should resolve major differences in philosophy and get on with the basic task of training technicians. (JS)

Presented is a report of the American Chemical Society's Polymer Core Course Committee. Includes committee activities, list of eight objectives (such as determining general course topics, evaluating available texts), and a discussion of how several of these objectives were accomplished. (JN)

Recommends curriculum clustering as a way of giving definition and meaning to secondary curricula lacking cohesiveness and academic depth. This approach involves the development of a cluster of courses outside of normal graduation requirements that form a general education core linking foundation courses and more advanced course work. Illustrates…

The quantity of schooling students receive in different curricular areas makes a powerful contribution to differences in achievement both within and between schools. These variations in quantity arise from differences in course offerings available to students in different high schools, as well as from variations in course selections by students.…

Experienced professors who teach the introduction to psychology course surveyed students to ascertain what they would like to learn in the beginning psychology course. A core curriculum presented here was developed for use by those currently teaching the course and by those teaching it in the future. (Author/BEF)