Presented is an interview concerning development and implementation of the Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) project, which has developed an interdisciplinary problem-solving curriculum for elementary students. (Author)

Discusses teaching science at the secondary and college levels and proposes a one-year unified science course organized around the human system. It would emphasize the basic principles of biology, chemistry, and physics. (SL)

Outlines and evaluates a one semester interdisciplinary program in which students at California State College, Stanislaus, were taught Soviet economics, literature, geography, government, and foreign policy. (Author/DB)

Recommends that history teachers incorporate educational theory into their courses. Describes and evaluates a history course at Brooklyn College constructed around Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive educational objectives. (Author/DB)

The development of organizational and industrial psychology as a profession is discussed within political, economic, and social contexts. The need for a more integrated approach to problems, increased communication between professionals, and clearer definitions of individual roles and expectations is discussed. (RW)

The curriculum of the Riyadh College of Pharmacy was compared with the pharmacy curricula of selected universities in the U. S., England, Egypt, and Ghana. A new curriculum based on the findings is described. (LBH)

As engineers become increasingly responsive to social issues, technology is no longer the only determinant of what they do. Ecological, social, cultural, psychological, and political influences are important considerations, and the changes are moving engineering schools to reconsider basic changes in both the mode and social content of their…

It is concluded that death and dying courses should, in principle, be team taught, and that a philosophy teacher must be a key member of the team. Courses provide a unique occasion for significant philosophical work, and a salient test of the meaningfulness of philosophy as a human venture. (Author)

Provides details of a study that attempts to broaden the understanding of mathematics by investigating how applied mathematicians and biologists collaborate in developing dynamic population models. (DDR)

Uses learning style assessments to justify more extensive use of creative work and asks why creative work appears to be difficult to initiate. Evaluates three case studies that provide evidence that creative work can be integrated into lessons with interesting consequences. (DDR)

Reviews the nature and application of the skills of reading and writing as they pertain to the learning of mathematics. Argues that students must learn to read mathematically. Contains 22 references. (DDR)

A Maryland middle-school teacher can no longer imagine a math classroom without computers, word processing programs, graphing calculators, graphic design programs, and colored printers and monitors. Aided by these devices, her students made great leaps toward the 21st-century technology goals spelled out by the Department of Education in 1995.…

Presents an activity with the objective that students apply and integrate what they learn about classification, food webs, and paleontology to the creation of a scientifically sound ecosystem. Students read and discuss literature selections during the unit. (DDR)

Argues for attitudes that will help nurture appreciation for the sciences in young children and stresses the importance of preparing youth to address global challenges in energy resources and conservation, to advance biochemistry and medicine, and to discover frontiers in space. (DDR)

Describes how, as a result of the Rivers Curriculum Project (an interdisciplinary program using river environmental themes and coordinating activities in several disciplines), students in a high school English class wrote and illustrated children's books, shared those story books with young children, and shared their story books at the yearly…