This report describes the development and proposed content of a new interdisciplinary course called "Science and Society," which will be offered at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) for the first time in fall 1976. This course will deal with the role which science and technology have played in the events which have shaped the…

Goal IX of the Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) deals with appreciating human accomplishments. The assessment instruments concentrate on attitudes that measure the degree of value students place on areas of human accomplishment and the willingness of students to explore environments where firsthand experiences are available. The purpose of…

This document is a report on the first phase of an interdisciplinary K-12 curriculum development for Utica, New York schools. Project SEARCH is a unified approach to a humanistic curriculum which focuses on man and his relation to others and the world. The curriculum model contains 10 parts which relate man to his self-image, family, community,…

Offered as a guide for parents, community members, school boards, and administrators, as well as teachers, this book suggests that elementary reading and writing ability is not sufficient preparation for today's world and that literacy instruction cannot be improved without a drastic alteration in the methods most schools employ. Part one…

Information for colleges engaged in curricular reform about how other schools are managing the task is presented with the central device for organizing details being an imagined core of studies, 50 semester hours, that would encourage coherent and substantive learning in essential areas of knowledge. Rather than acting as a single prototype this…

One of 11 guides designed for junior high school teachers who wish to develop their own materials related to the fine arts and humanities area of career education, the primary focus is on identifying the components within each segment of the arts and humanities and the career areas within each segment. The fine arts are divided into art, music,…