To ensure that students under its jurisdiction would be prepared for and comfortable with a rapidly changing, high-technology society, the South Gibson School Corporation (Indiana) decided in 1982 to introduce microcomputers in its one high school and three community schools. The implementation and encouraging results of this project are…

Describes how adjunct courses can encourage students to see writing as a process of discovery and creation. (CRH)

The structure of teacher education programs in Great Britain is reviewed. Emphasis is placed on combining theory courses within the practice oriented curriculum. (DE)

Florida Memorial College's curriculum model of internship and pre-internship programs is the answer to the needs of its constituency and perhaps the answer to the needs of black colleges throughout the United States. Continuing education combines with an intensive field experience program in a departure from the traditional educational patterns.…

Faculty members from Florida International University discuss the problems involved with the planning and implementation of its new school of technology. Information is given on the problems involved with program selection and operation, faculty recruitment, and student needs. (DS)

A national movement seeks to strengthen family life by encouraging the schools to educate students for good parenthood. (Editor)

A description of an individualized, local curriculum developed and evaluated through student input. (CP)

Briefly reviews the broad-based first degree programs in British Universities and considers the general problems of such programs. Explains the general approach used at the University of Leeds, including seven combined degree programs with physics as one principle subject. Employment prospects for graduates are considered good. (PR)

Describes the development of a high school physics curriculum from a small course to a large program involving general and advanced first year courses and an advanced placement program. Recruiting of students and curriculum revisions are also discussed. (TS)

Describes the community programs initiated in Rockland, Massachusetts to deal with drug abuse. (KH)

Describes the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study which involved (1) the development of computer programs for use in an introductory college chemistry course, (2) an evaluation of the programs, (3) an analysis of the extent to which the programs provided for individual differences, and (4) a description and evaluation of the…

Describes the cooperative relationship between the Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth), the Pioneers, and the schools, with specific reference to their mutual responsibilities in the Lenin Year. (JB)

"Curriculum proposal for expanded industrial arts, Enterprise proposes to teach students to understand greater varieties of work and ways to prepare for it. A new curriculum development, it has distinct application to high school occupational orientation. The major categories of the program are: (1) electronics and instrumentation, (2)…