The author insists that a curriculum taught in common to all children will restore national cohesion, and he suggests as a fulcrum an education that enables students to feel secure in the physical, social, ethical, cultural, literary, and technological environments in which they live. (Editor)

The internal perceptions of students enrolled in voluntary and required physical education courses are compared, using the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, to each other and to expected norms. (JMF)

Relationships between students' grades and their evaluations of instructions were analyzed for 283 accounting students. Students in intermediate accounting who took introductory courses in which the teacher was more highly rated did worse than those from introductory courses in which the teacher was less highly rated. (Contains 38 references.) (SK)

Describes New York University's commitment to general mathematics and science education for undergraduate students, embodied in the College of Arts and Science's core curriculum, the Morse Academic Plan, which includes a three-course sequence, Foundations of Scientific Inquiry, specifically designed for non-majors. (EV)

Proposes that general education curricula often have difficulty remaining faithful to goals of student empowerment. Provides case study of first year composition (FYC). Suggests that a strong commitment to reflection and revision of programs will create curricula that are more questioning and less comfortable with their own assumptions. Proposes…

Describes strategies developed by the Association of California School Administrators to align state grade-level standards with special-education student academic goals during the IEP process. (PKP)

Education for parenthood has long been a neglected area of school curricula despite a professed belief in such education. This paper suggests the current level of priority for education for parenthood and the reasons for this level of priority. (CB)

The article describes how one liberal arts college, Mount Saint Mary's College (Maryland), developed a core curriculum over a four-year period. The curriculum's roots in a faculty survey and issues of consensus and debate (especially the curriculum's principle of integration) are discussed. Principles such as detailed organization with flexibility…

The recent publication of attainment standards in English for British students under the 1988 Education Reform Act is critiqued. Provisions and the recommended course of study are excerpted from the report. The report is criticized for failing to recognize existing good practice and not acknowledging the paramount importance of the individual…

Findings from a survey of 92 American medical school curriculums suggest that physicians may be unprepared to offer effective counseling on exercise. The survey showed that 67 percent of schools had no formal instruction in exercise medicine. A required course emphasizing cardiorespiratory fitness is recommended. (IAH)

Articles on the literary canon include: "Contingencies of Value" (Barbara Herrnstein Smith); "Canon Fodder, the Cultural Hustle, and the Minotaur" (R. T. Smith); "Curriculum Battles and Global Politics" (Betty Jean Craige); "The Feminist Challenge to the Canon" (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese); and "Education…

Argues that dance education should be a separate discipline from the physical education programs and that the National Dance Association needs to represent dance education. Notes that the "Dance Curricula Guidelines K-12" delineates the common core of knowledge, and comments on inservice education and state certification for dance…

Discusses uses of an electronic meeting system (EMS) to aid in designing graduate core curricula. Presents results from a study of a seven-member task force that used EMS for seven months to facilitate selection of core courses for master's degree programs. A diagram illustrates the task force's graduate core review process and an appendix…

Discusses suggestions for improving preclinical medical training in British Medical Schools and how these ideas were flawed by excessive idealism. Suggests a core curriculum should be defined in terms of need. Techniques in developing a core curriculum should include critical incident studies, task analysis of established practitioners, the study…