The average American child lives on a fat-laden diet, watches too much television, and gets insufficient exercise. A comprehensive, cost-effective school program based on three interrelated components--health education, health services, and a healthy environment--should increase awareness of healthy lifestyles and build in strategies for involving…

Discusses "Project 2061," a reform initiative for science literacy. Explains that reform is needed in science education because developments in science and technology continually transform daily life. Suggests that taking an interdisciplinary approach to science will make the subject understandable to more people. Argues that curriculum…

Describes the development of a fifth-grade social studies program, Man: A Course of Study, or MACOS. Discusses how the program strengths and shortcomings, those of the educational reform movement of the 1960s, influence today's educational reform. Suggests that the role of scholars, the participation of teachers, and the use of media are valuable…

Explores ways in which elementary school foreign language programs can fully integrate cultural insights, skills, and understanding through an examination of instructional models and developmental factors in the teaching of culture, goal setting for teaching culture, and culture and curriculum in the foreign language classroom and in other areas.…

A course designed to address diversity issues in the business school curriculum was based on organizational behavior theory, work force diversity theory, and experiential learning approaches. After the course, 70% of 154 students felt more aware of issues; 88% felt more comfortable working with diverse groups of people. (SK)

Describes one Georgia high school's attempt to bridge the gap between quality instruction and standardized assessment. Outlines the school's continuous improvement plan to raise test scores, based on research and including a three-pronged focus on the environment, test-taking skills and knowledge of students and teachers, and the curriculum. Notes…

Explores some current concepts of curriculum integration, and proposes some alternatives to the conceptual violence often done in the name of curriculum integration. What is lost in many efforts in curriculum integration is the "topography" of any particular thing. Curriculum integration should rely on relationships that already exist and not…

A baccalaureate nursing curriculum was redesigned around eight core competencies with measurable indicators for each performance-based competency outcome. Effective learning strategies to achieve outcomes and methods to document achievement were also outlined. (SK)

Presents a step-by-step method for identifying curricular priorities for students who are visually impaired once a comprehensive educational assessment has been completed. This methodological approach to analyzing instruction needs provides data to substantiate informed decisions about what to teach and the amount of instruction time required. (CR)

Argues that while national standards provide a valuable resource to guide curriculum development, there is no clear procedure for turning them into a grade-by-grade curriculum. Outlines and discusses the process that one school district used to create a standards-based curriculum. Provides numerous charts and examples. (DSK)

Discusses leaving the old canon and creating a new curriculum encompassing more diverse interests. Argues that multicultural literature should be read because it will cause readers to come face-to-face with their own values in a way which will either cause those values to change or cause readers to become more aware of them and more reflective of…

Discusses elements of a larger work on music education in the context of a rebuttal to critics. Includes sections on philosophical bases, composing and performing, works of music, musical listening, musical understanding, verbal knowledge, music and other arts, musical creativity, and educational values. (DSK)

Service learning was integrated into a business curriculum through phases of exploration, clarification, realization, activation, and internalization. The objective was to promote students' personal (moral) and professional (ethical) development. (SK)

Summarizes the assumptions and curricular progression of the traditional German program and elaborates a possible alternative curriculum recently instituted at Transylvania University that hopes to move undergraduate German instruction in a different direction. (Author/VWL)

Concludes this journal focus section on curriculum integration with transcripts of questions asked by conference attendees and answers by Professors Beane and George. Areas addressed included experience levels with children and teachers, studies that point to the failure of curriculum integration, and how teachers can continue curriculum…