The curriculum guide outlines behavioral objectives, learning activities, evaluation methods, and resources to help K-12 classroom teachers develop and implement social studies programs. Major objectives are to extend knowledge, develop skills to make effective use of this knowledge, and to facilitate the socialization process. The first section…

This paper describes social problems that ethnic minorities are likely to experience in the 1980s and presents guidelines for shaping educational policies and programs that will help ethnic minority youths to experience more educational equity during the remainder of the decade. The minority groups discussed are those that are heavily concentrated…

Increasing interdisciplinary learning in high school by basing curriculum on problem solving is the topic of this book. It is based on the proceedings of a conference held in Estes Park, Colorado, January 2-14, 1973. The major objective of the problem-solving approach is to increase individuals' skills in making decisions that will affect their…