Integrating ICTs into international development projects is common. However, focusing on how ICTs support leading, teaching, and learning is often overlooked. This article describes a team's approach to technology integration into the design of a large-scale, five year, teacher and leader professional development project in the country of Georgia.…

A six-semester secondary school computer science education program is described. Major program objectives and brief course descriptions are provided. The first course is a one-semester course on basic computer literacy. (Author/JN)

Portrays athletics programs as educationally valuable and useful for instilling values. (JM)

Describes an environmental education program at a high school in Massachusetts in which alternative approaches to community environmental action are stressed. Students are exposed to general environmental knowledge, information regarding environmental crises, human/nature relationships, and possible solutions to environmental problems. (DB)

Explores possibilities of involving students in projects which offer them real world experiences. Examples include student newspapers, student courts, student advocates, and student participation in contract agreements. Journal availability see: SO 507 251. (Author/DB)

Contains a description of what English is understood to be in the public and secondary schools across Canada. (RB)

The visual arts can play an important role in the adolescent's struggle to link the inner world of thoughts and feelings with the outer world of expressive form. The Summer Visual Arts Institute, organized by Boston University for adolescents, is described. (RM)

Describes a project conducted to develop standards and guidelines for the improvement of industrial arts programs that fulfill the objectives of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The project also sought to facilitate the incorporation of the American Industrial Arts Student Association into the total fabric of industrial arts education. (CT)

Describes the rationale and objectives which define the relationship between content and skills of the Civic Education Social Studies Curriculum. The curriculum is a project of the Carnegie-Mellon Education Center in cooperation with five Pittsburgh and two Bakersfield, California high schools. (KC)

Includes a description of Project Synthesis with its three-fold purpose: to describe the desired state of science education, to delineate the actual state of science education, and to assess the differences between the actual and the desired states. (MA)

Presents 10 comprehensive objectives related to instituting shared decision-making and individualized education in secondary schools. Illustrates applications of each objective with features from schools. (Author/JM)

The attempts of St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, to respond to the pastoral "To Teach as Jesus Did" is described. For journal availability see SO 504 329. (DE)

The Career Education Model of the Orange County Consortium (OCC), consisting of two school districts and a community college district, is a comprehensive educational program focusing on careers, which begins in the preschool years and continues through adult education. The interim report on this model opens with a brief summary of the goals,…

Project Trident (an ESEA title III project at Lincoln, Illinois) was designed to develop a comprehensive career education program for all students which would unify and synthesize the various components of career education at the secondary school level. A description of program objectives, phases, structure, and implementation is presented.…

Focuses on the 11th grade geography curriculum which was introduced into Australian schools in 1974. Outlines the background, objectives, structure, and content of the curriculum syllabus. For journal availability, see SO 505 212. (Author/DB)