The author comments on Barbara H. Mickey's article, Designing the External Degree Program. (PG)

The purpose here is to consider the need for the official (legal) and professional creation of three distinct entities within the public school systems: elementary, middle, and secondary schools. (Author)

With the aid of technology, a teaching-learning situation geared toward the student as an individual has been under development for several years at the Music Library Laboratory Center of John J. Duggan Junior High School, Springfield, Massachusetts. (Author)

"From the findings of this study it can be inferred that experiences in the art class can have an important role to perform in developing the visual sophistication of disadvantaged learners... the art teacher is the key to effect behavior changes in disadvantaged learners and not in art, per se. (Author)

At Michigan State University's college of education, four thematic core curricula for preservice teachers have been designed. The curricula emphasize (1) fostering academic learning; (2) teaching in heterogeneous classrooms; (3) fostering personal and social responsibility; and (4) decision making. (PP)

The objectives of the study were to determine characteristics of secondary horticulture teachers, the structure of horticulture departments, funding sources, nature and scope of facilities, types of supervised occupational experience programs in which horticulture students participated, and curriculum characteristics of vocational horticulture…

Introduces a computer curriculum designed specifically for a rehabilitation graduate program. Encourages rehabilitation educators to take a major role in preparing future leaders to work with this technology. Describes a curriculum consisting of two courses: a rehabilitation computing overview course and a research data processing course.…

Compared formal science scope/sequence with curriculum as it was taught in Little Rock (Arkansas) classrooms. Elementary teachers (N=126) were given a list of 273 concepts and asked if a topic was a significant part of their instruction and how much time was spent teaching it. Results are reported and discussed. (JN)

The objectives for minority content in the social work curriculum are discussed. Two training models that are consistent with professional literature on racial attitudes and beliefs, the prescriptive and intrapersonal models, and their implications for improvement of practice are examined. (MSE)

Traces the emergence of aging education in the public schools. Suggests that as students learn to see the world as a global village, they also can learn about aging and that older people exist both as a national resource and a national problem. Curriculum materials and programs, while scarce, are becoming increasingly available. (Author/JAC)

Educational theory and practice are examined in the context of the system of values, beliefs, and moral and aesthetic judgments that are representative of society. "Aristocratic,""bourgeois," and "radical" views and influences on educational theory and practice are also discussed. (CJ)

Clearer conceptual and operational distinctions in doctoral education are advocated, based on professional functions that graduates are expected to perform. Distinctions between education for advanced practice and education for research are encouraged. Content areas for practice-related curriculum are suggested. (MSE)

It is suggested that gifted children need opportunities to interact with each other, opportunities for discovery learning, programs which will foster independence, and programs which will include activities in all three learning domains. The teacher's role is defined, and examples of activities suitable for gifted instruction are provided. (MP)

Occupational and environmental health programs are beginning to be developed in many medical schools. The attitudes of medical school deans on their past experiences, current plans, and thoughts for the future for occupational and environmental health were surveyed and are described. (MLW)