This report is one in a series of reference documents designed especially to assist educators who are directly involved in the revision and improvement of content standards. It presumes a basic understanding of the purposes for standards and the process of standards review and evaluation. This document is intended to be a desktop reference volume…

Discusses the undergraduate liberal arts chemistry curriculum of Drew University which emphasizes preparation of students either for a chemistry vocation or for medical or other science careers. Indicates that interdisciplinary training, articulation of courses to students' background, and elimination of traditional course organization are main…

Livestock production, crop production, farm management and records, and agricultural mechanics should be the heart of the Vo-Ag curriculum in rural areas, supplemented by natural resources, forestry, agriculture occupations and placement, because production agriculture education meets community needs and is an inseparable component of preparation…

Article outlined the position of the Vice Principal, Instruction in secondary schools: to work under the direction of the principal for the improvement of curriculum and instruction throughout the school. (Author/RK)

This article attempts to outline a framework for enhancing the occupational guidance programs for elementary schools by having teachers and guidance counselors assume more responsibility. (Author/RP)

Author states that subjecting all English teachers to a flattening, homogenizing planning methodology, merely sets up restricted channels for thinking, trivializing the work of able teachers and sanctifying the ineptitude of weak ones. Routinized response to formula drives out real thinking, real planning. (Author)

Considers the notion of the extended university and its implications for the library of the future. (Author/RK)

Author warns that in order for children to develop intellectually educators must recognize the need for prevention of extended deviations in social, physical, emotional and/or mental areas. Early childhood seemed to be the most promising time for effecting desired changes in intellectual growth patterns. (Author/RK)

A discussion of a task analysis procedure which was used to develop a task-based curriculum for hospital corpsmen. (Author)

Examines alternative schools and a significant art-centered alternative to conventional practice. (Author/RK)

Proposes eight imperatives for meeting the inner-city crisis. (SB)

Combining the familiar unit lesson plans of the 1950's with the behavioral objectives that were first emphasized in the later 1960's, competency-based teacher education is a refinement that will permit individualization and personalization of teacher training programs and still provide structure for these programs. (Author)

An attempt has been made in this article to show cause for training in critical inquiry for prospective teachers of art. (Author/RK)