Educators from Fullerton Union High School District, Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Capistrano Unified School District, and Huntington Beach Union High School District describe their efforts toward developing competency-based curriculum to meet state mandates. (SJL)

The basic principles of program survival include one person assuming responsibility for a new program, continuing staff development, and altering a new program to benefit and improve student achievement. (MLF)

Answers to questions a business teacher may have about implementing model office simulation are discussed: Reasons for using simulation, how simulation fits into the curriculum, administrative support, equipment, starting the project, preventing problems through staff meetings with students. (TA)

Emphasizing the need to develop curricula that both maintains loyalty to the Athabascan's cultural heritage and provides needed technical training, this article briefly describes some of the problems of initiating high school programs for Athabascan youth in the rurally isolated areas of Alaska. (JC)

Reports on the C.W. Post Center faculty's efforts to introduce computer technology into the curriculum. Students devised and administered a questionnaire, analyzed the data, and acted on the results using computers. (JOW)

The author describes how one teacher started a vocational agriculture program at a small high school and developed it into an agricultural institute featuring a money-making 11-acre farm. She discusses how he raised the necessary start-up funds and how the institute has helped unify the school. (CH)

Academic multiculturalism, an emerging educational trend, is a one-dimensional approach that adds a list of admirable persons of color to the existing curriculum. Political multiculturalism opens the curriculum to analysis and reconstruction of historical power struggles, including the social conditions and inequitable power relations behind…

Offers step-by-step guidelines for creating effective team work in a workplace basic skills program, including preplanning, determining worker skills, developing curriculum, evaluating, and reporting the results. (JOW)

Includes "Keys to Successful Tech Prep Programs" (Cahill); "Tech Prep Systems for the Twenty-First Century--The Power of Process" (Key, Key); and "Indiana Tech Prep Pilot" (Hoke, Suba). (JOW)

Recounts the history and context of the adult literacy movement in Ethiopia. Looks at delivery systems, curriculum and program development, teaching methods, teacher training and recruitment, achievements, funding, evaluation, and policies. Suggests that, since social change is always difficult and Ethiopia has undergone many hardships, the…

Describes how and why writing program administrators should get involved in developing a technical communication program. Discusses one such program, in which students are prepared as technical writers to enter the profession of technical communication. Suggests how to begin and how to develop ties with the industrial community. (HB)

Provides an outline by which corporations can develop internal auditing programs to comply with government standards. Points discussed include roles and responsibilities; instructional design; and supporting documents. (MDH)

Outlines the development of a guidance and counseling program curriculum implemented by Bermuda's Ministry and Department of Education. The curriculum is designed to enable counselors to co-plan with teachers and other school personnel as an interdisciplinary team in the articulation of the guidance and counseling program with designated areas of…

Provides a historical background to the establishment of library education programs in Ghana and traces the development of the curriculum and current programs of the University of Ghana. Highlights include curriculum changes; current national needs and challenges; and professional, subprofessional, and advanced professional programs. (Author/LRW)

Studied the smoking cessation attitudes and practices of 244 fourth-year dental students through a self-report survey. Students generally endorsed tobacco prevention practices, but perceived barriers to service provision. Findings show the receptivity of students to smoking cessation education and the need to include cessation counseling training…