This report contains a brief summary of 109 innovative instructional programs reported as underway or anticipated by 14 school districts participating in the Educational System for the Seventies (ES-70) program. The following information is provided in each program summary: (1) Title of program, (2) academic and vocational areas involved, (3)…

This document proposes that an Institute of Health Sciences be established as a new unit of the City University of New York (CUNY) within the framework of Hunter College in cooperation with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The Institute's bachelors and masters programs would prepare professionals to work with physicians on health teams. The…

Under a grant from the North Dakota State Board for Vocational and Technical Education, a project in vocational research in the field of Environmental Science Technology was conducted for the purpose of developing vocational education curricula. The resulting curricula is for a two year program. The proposal is divided into suggested courses to be…

The Texas Education Code directs the Texas Education Agency to prepare and distribute a "reorganized curriculum based on operation of schools on a quarter basis," which authorization offers opportunities for curriculum changes in Texas public schools. This guide is designed to provide leadership in curriculum development for school…

This book is a report of a major curriculum revision undertaken by the faculty in educational administration in the School of Education, Stanford University. Sensing the educational needs of the 1970's and 1980's, the Stanford faculty pondered the kinds of administrative services likely to be needed and suggested one model that might have…

A multimedia course on economic analysis was developed and used in conjunction with the United States Naval Academy. (See ED 043 790 and ED 043 791 for the final reports of the project evaluation and development model.) This document describes how various project activities were performed in designing the course and gives a rationale for the way…

Samples of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this collection for dissemination purposes. Descriptions are included of course objectives, characteristics, structures, and content. As a two-semester course of study for science and engineering sophomores, most topics are on a level comparable to that of classical physics by…

This report is the thirteenth of twenty-one reports dealing with the developmental history of a recent educational product: the Holt Social Studies Curriculum directed by Dr. Edwin Fenton. This series of courses stresses an inquiry approach to the study of history and the social sciences, specifically economic and political systems, world history,…

Provides the syllabus for an advanced level (A-level) electronics course in which communication computer and feedback systems are analyzed. (CP)

Describes and provides evaluation of a one semester minicourse curriculum for undergraduate earth science instruction. (CP)

Describes the physics teaching conditions at Solihull Sixth Form College, a comprehensive secondary school in the County Borough of Solihull, United Kingdom. Available physics course, timetable, teaching system, laboratories and study rooms, and future developments are also discussed. (HM)

Describes a ninth-grade transportation technology course developed by the Technical Education Program at West Virginia University for a junior high school with no existing industrial arts curriculum. Although not developed for the usual industrial arts lab, the course information could be useful in updating present industrial arts curricula. (MF)

The Introduction to Clinical Medicine course developed at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) early in 1973 is described, which, in part, was the product of a revision of two previous courses: clinical diagnosis and physical diagnosis. The new course stresses techniques of bedside data collection, communication of data, and data…

The Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine is exploring the possibility of using a curriculum based on the systematic feed-forward establishment of competency-based terminal performance objectives to replace the cyclic feedback approach of curricular design presently being used. (Author/LBH)

This article describes some of the promising national and local efforts addressing particular facets of health education. The author notes that none of these programs can stand alone as comprehensive. Principals and teachers must be prepared to create a curriculum appropriate for their particular school. (Author/DS)