The primary purpose of this project is to develop and field test a core curriculum in agriculture for rural secondary schools and a core curriculum in agriculture for metropolitan or urban schools in Illinois. Activities of Phase 1 of the project were reviewing literature and interviewing industry representatives to identify pertinent research and…

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO HAVE MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND TECHNICIANS IDENTIFY CORES OF SUBJECT MATTER RELATED TO TECHNICIAN JOB PERFORMANCE AND TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THEIR JUDGMENTS. FIFTY-TWO TECHNICIANS AND 116 MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN 52 ILLINOIS FIRMS EMPLOYING 200 OR MORE PERSONS PARTICIPATED. A 99-CARD CURRICULUM DECK,…

THIS PROJECT REPORTED THE RESULTS OF THE SIXTH REVISION OF STATISTICS ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENTRANCE AND DEGREE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BA DEGREE. IT WAS FOUND THAT, OUT OF 899 COLLEGES WHICH GRANT SUCH A DEGREE, A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE BY 284 INSTITUTIONS, AND FOR THE BA BY 772. TABLES ARE LISTED WHICH COMPARE STATISTICS WITH THOSE…

The National School Resource Network (NSRN) provides nationwide training events, technical assistance, and information dissemination to assist school personnel in preventing and reducing crime, violence, vandalism, and disruption. The Core Curriculum includes seven courses, each divided into modules. In Course 1, participants are introduced to a…

The purpose of this bulletin is to provide administrators, teachers, parents, and other members of the New York City educational community with a resource that identifies, within all disciplines, the basic body of knowledge and skills to be taught at each grade or level (K-9). The bulletin begins with a broad perspective of each subject area,…

Black female, Chicano female, Asian female and total female enrollment representations as well as total Black, total Chicano and total Asian enrollment representations were determined for undergraduate major areas at seven University of California campuses. The number of mathematics courses required for each major was also determined from the…

James Madison College of Michigan State University provides a 4-year, residentially-based program devoted to the study of major social, economic, and political policy problems. It offers 5 fields of concentration: (1) Ethnic and Religious Intergroup Relations Policy Problems; (2) International Relations Policy Problems; (3) Justice, Morality and…

To aid the teacher of the mentally retarded in integrating art into other subject areas, two sample projects and two five-lesson units with core activities, one on clothing and one on the state of Iowa, are presented. In addition, suggestions for teachers are listed along with the expectations of normal children and the basics of good art.…

Presented is state-of-the-art report on the core concept as it is implemented in allied health professions education programs. The objective of the report was to bring together information about "core" which would enable allied health educators to clarify the meaning of the concept in allied health education and to provide a summarization of its…

On October 3, 1972 the faculty of Mars Hill College approved the extension of the present core curriculum and the modified 4-1-4 calendar through the 1973-74 academic year. The faculty further asked that the study of the competence-based curriculum be continued. This document contains a partial list of the proposals produced by the ongoing review…

A comprehensive and integrated basic studies program formulated in 1970 at a community college is discussed. To examine the effects of the program, applicants who graduated in the lower four-fifths and five-fifths of their high school class were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. Students in the experimental group were…

Five basic courses in a core curriculum for California Community Colleges in the Administration of Justice, phase one of the curriculum guide, are described and outlined. The courses are: Introduction to the Administration of Justice, Principles and Procedures of the Justice System, Concepts of Criminal Law, Legal Aspects of Evidence, Community…

This monograph is the third in a series summarizing the work progress of the Human Services Manpower Career Center, a special research and development project funded by the U. S. Department of Labor. This volume offers a core curriculum for the training of workers in state human services agencies, geared primarily to the use of the community…

Students can be motivated to develop writing ability when teachers help them to understand the rationales for learning to write, to set goals within the context of those rationales, and to select an appropriate writing course from a variety of choices. (RL)

Daniel Bell, author and Harvard sociologist, is interviewed. Among the topics discussed are his view of society, his books, ideology, universities and higher education--including Harvard's core curriculum project and the 1968 student revolt at Columbia University, and Israel and the Jewish experience. (JMD)