Presents guidelines for developing plans and courses in environmental education. Describes how school districts in several parts of the country are conducting model projects in environmental education. (Author/JH)

The newsletter reports results from the National Special Education Curricula Survey completed by state department officials, college and university staff, and personnel from schools, community agencies, and special projects across the country. Respondents identified 230 exemplary special education curricula. Those curricula are listed…

The final report summarizes activities of the 3-year Correctional Special Education Training (C/SET) Project, designed to improve special education services to incarcerated youth and young adults. Original project goals are listed. First year activities are noted, including site visits to identify current regional correctional special education…

Author lists some recently produced materials to help make the change to the metric system. Materials range from $1.98 converter to $450 multimedia programs. (GB)

This guide, growing out of the annual evaluation by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) of English Language Arts curriculum documents (K-12), presents exemplary curriculum documents from the years 1986-1989. The guide presents documents which were commended by the NCTE reviewers and which demonstrate substantive, procedural, or…

A CURRICULUM GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR A DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM (ED 010 332) WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO WERE CONSIDERED POTENTIAL DROPOUTS. SELECTION WAS ON THE BASES OF (1) INTELLIGENCE, (2) READING ACHIEVEMENT, (3) GENERAL ACHIEVEMENT, (4) SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, AND (5) SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT. MAJOR EMPHASIS WAS ON PROVIDING THE STUDENTS WITH A SENSE…

Retraces the steps taken spontaneously by a group of teachers and university professors in northern Saskatchewan to bring about specific curriculum changes in their schools. (DE)

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume outlines one of two programs for training future leaders of the Salvation Army Corps Cadets (ages 12 to 18). This program consists of five self-contained…

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume presents one of two programs for training future leaders of the Salvation Army Corps Cadets (ages 12 to 18). The program aims at increasing participants'…

This booklet presents exemplary curriculum guides from the years 1988-89 to 1993-94. The guides discussed in the booklet illustrate student-centered, performance-based approaches which can serve as models for other schools and school districts. Entries in the booklet include a description of each curriculum guide, a commentary about its…

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume describes a course of study for troubled teenage girls in a residential treatment center. The program goal was to help the teenagers learn to deal with…

The guide lists program objectives for the social studies curriculum used at the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES) with deaf and hearing impaired students. Terminal objectives are listed, and teachers are encouraged to supplement them with sub-objectives and activities. Objectives are said to cover preschool through middle school…

This report represents the first year record of the Manpower Leadership Education Project. This inaugural effort toward cooperative manpower leadership training between a labor department base and university occupational education base was made possible by a contract between the Michigan Department of Labor, Bureau of Manpower, and the University…

Describes the Women's Action Alliance Non-Sexist Child Development Project designed to help parents, teachers, aides and school administrators combat sex role stereotyping in the preschool classroom. (BF/JH)

This is one of a series of Education for Parenthood Manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs aimed at preparing teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This guide contains six curriculum units emphasizing self-understanding, knowledge about children and the responsibility of parenthood, and skills development for…