The purpose of this study was to examines the relationship between students' core knowledge and their achievement in mathematics and reading on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. The study was based on E. D. Hirsch's theory that having a strong foundation of core knowledge in one grade is necessary for growth and the understanding of new and more…

The report describes the work of an American Association of Colleges of Nursing task force charged with defining the central elements of master's education for advanced practice nursing. The task force formed a consensus for two separate but related components: a statement of the essential core curriculum content for master's-educated nurses and a…

Teachers, principals and parents often ask about the effectiveness of Core Knowledge. This article is meant to answer that question, by providing a brief overview of some of the most recent and most relevant research on Core Knowledge. This document has been divided into two sections. The first section treats direct evidence; the second looks at…

Extensive statistical analyses were made of annual achievement progress on North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction tests. The data included 1,592 students in six Core Knowledge schools and 533,919 students in more than 1,300 other schools. The analyses showed that Core Knowledge schools excelled the other schools in achievement progress…

The National Reading Panel (NRP) issued a report in 2000 that responded to a congressional mandate to help parents, teachers, and policymakers identify key skills and instructional methods central to reading achievement. The panel identified five areas that they found to be critical to effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics,…

Discusses the graduate engineering management program of Drexel University, including student characteristics, program objectives, academic requirements, and course options. Indicates that the program serves the demand for management talent by providing students with skills different from those of conventional programs. (CC)

Discusses the conduct of a civil engineering program at both graduate and undergraduate levels with emphases placed on complex environmental and social problems of contemporary society. Indicates that students are provided with the ability to understand goals, formulate problems, pose alternative solutions, and test the results in the real world.…

Saying that the systems approach to teaching has not yet been sufficiently developed to revolutionize school curricula, the author advocates combining traditional approaches with in-school development of problem-solving packages. (Editor)

The major premise of this discussion is that the elementary school teacher should be responsible for teaching only a core of basic subjects, and that specialists should be utilized for music, sciences and other specialized subjects. (Author/RK)

Describes a comparison between 1965 and 1969 questionnaire survey results received from 38 institutions. Indicates the correspondence of subject-discipline evolution in agreement with suggested recommendations, except for mathematics (CC)

With a renewed planning process Catholic higher education can withstand the tide of development our society is experiencing. (RK)

A response to Theodore Hipple's The English Teacher Should Major in Education" ( English Education," vol. 2, no. 1 (Fall 1970), pp. 35-9). (RD)

It is proposed that language programs be better organized to coordinate instruction, experiences, and materials among the various languages taught, and that applied linguistics can provide the common denominator both in teacher education and for students to develop competence in more than one language. (MSE)