This dissertation is part of a study that explains and evaluates a high interest curriculum in the basic communication areas of reading, writing, and speaking. The curriculum is based on the theories that the vital communication skills are more effectively taught when they are unified in reinforcing activities, and that literature in the…

Claremont College's efforts to explore the subject of Black Studies in a systematic fashion may be the first step in the direction of its own "re-humanization." The relevance of this statement may be seen in the light of the ease with a large number of white institutions of higher education have dodged the intellectual issue -- by setting up…

Leaders from across the country attended the Fourth Annual National Vocational-Technical Teacher Education seminar, which focused on emerging teacher education curricular models. The November 1970 seminar had three primary objectives: (1) to provide an understanding of the performance-based core concept of a model vocational-technical teacher…

The Rocky Mountain Educational Laboratory (RMEL) Health Occupations Curriculum project was initially structured to provide broad exploratory activities for the total student body, an elective course, orientation to employment, and work entry experience in the 11th and 12th grades. It was expected that the project would provide a prototype for…

The Common Core Career Education Curriculum Guide is one of a series developed to assist those involved in implementing career education programs concerned with public service occupations. The basic instructional material recommended for all areas of public service preparation is presented for nine units: (1) oral communications, (2) written…

A significant increase in secondary psychology instruction in Ohio over the last decade led to initiation of state certification in psychology. At the same time national interest in precollege psychology was evident in the activities of the American Psychological Association and other groups. In spring, 1973, an Ohio survey of teacher training in…

Project LEM (Learning Experience Module), funded under Title III, Elementary Secondary Education Act, incorporates concepts of an open elementary educational plan, featuring: multi-age, multi-ethnic groupings, individually prescribed instructions, a "core" curriculum, differentiated staffing, and maximum space utilization. These…

Positive and negative aspects of assigning faculty in nursing specialties to teach foundations or basic nursing skills courses are discussed. Students' reactions to nursing specialists' instruction are also examined. Recommendations are made for duplicating the positive outcomes of a multidisciplinary faculty mix. (MF)

Describes the development and design of an undergraduate course which utilized a marketing principles class to teach students information gathering techniques as part of a college wide competency requirement. The materials and procedures used, roles of instructors and librarians in the course, and evaluation of the project are discussed. (CLB)

A program is described that set out to improve/enlarge the reading background of entering students by asking them to read 5-10 specific books before coming to college, featuring one book each year as the "common text," and providing a number of special seminars and activities based on that text. (MLW)

Examines the controversy over what should make up core curriculum and whether topics such as values clarification, visual literacy, thinking skills, and computer literacy should be included in such curriculum. (JC)

The present liberal arts degree does not provide the thinking skills and necessary knowledge for wise decision-making because it is not keeping up with the increasing pace of history and the expanding world of technology and knowledge, and does not directly teach synthesizing skills. Elements of a core curriculum are proposed.(MSE)

This paper examines the impact American community colleges have on the nation's economic development. The profile of the community college offered here indicates that there are 1,236 public and private non-profit community colleges in the United States, with an additional 300 to 400 for-profit institutions sometimes included in the category. The…

This project examined the long term effects of the Experimental College Program at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s through interviews with 40 of the 200 students who completed the program and a questionnaire sent to program participants and similar nonparticipants (n=104). A team of 6 faculty taught 150 students, admitted…

This report seeks to answer the question whether improving the course-taking choices of urban school students can close the achievement gap between urban students and students nationally. It examines ACT Assessment scores for June 1997 high school graduates from school districts that are members of the Council of the Great City Schools. The…