Origins, philosophy, goals, textbook formulation, guidelines, other publications, and measurement of success for the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study program are discussed. (DF)

Processes of change are noted as a course for the postgraduate Diploma of Education (La Trobe University, Australia) is created. Outcomes indicated there should be a careful and totally honet examination of beliefs and attitudes before the notion of innovation is considered. (JB)

The impossibility of providing one standard, uniform syllabus and curriculum throughout the region and the difficulties of communication by curriculum planners are outlined. (JB)

Charges that recent innovative curricular reforms in the academic areas have not been reflected by similar advances in the structure of art education. (DS)

The war in Vietnam created a new curriculum on peace education. The new courses, known also as Peace Studies, take an interdisciplinary approach combining sociology, history, philosophy, morality, economics, futuristics, and political science. (DS)

Most students have the competence and the right to make significant decisions concerning their own learning if they are provided appropriate leadership, and high school principals must assume responsibility for initiating that leadership and ensuring its continuity. (Author)

A sound program in Environmental Studies may show the way to attack other multidisciplinary problems. Some of these are population problems, urban renewal, black studies, resource utilization, and in-depth regional studies. (Author)

The author states that the mentally retarded are not exceptional in their sexual impulses and that they are entitled to the expression of their impulses. (GW)

Essay which points out that most innovation becomes absorbed and, in effect, standardized by traditional educational processes and which argues that these processes need overhauling in order to be more responsive to today's media-hip student described by McLuhan. (LS)

The author discusses the fallacy that more time in school means a higher level of competency among the students. (MF)

Paper describes a public speaking course that has been taught successfully for six quarters at Florida State University. (Author)

This article is a substantially revised version of a chapter in the author's book, Time's Children: Impressions of Youth." (SB)