The paper describes a Virginia career education project tested in 1974-5 at 10 field sites with sixth through ninth grade students. The simulation-based curriculum, Careers and You, takes a clusters approach to career orientation. Designed for a total school year, the curriculum repeats its sequence of phases so that each is emphasized twice. The…

The report describes a career education demonstration project conducted in Junction City, Oregon, a city of 2,535 people with a high concentration of low-income families. Major limitations encountered were resistance to change and lack of funds. Procedures included four inservice sessions for instructional and guidance staff and four visitations…

This guide is a collection of abstracts--most of them selected from "Research in Education"--of the materials produced by the 23 English Curriculum Study and Demonstration Centers of the USOE English Program (Project English). A revision of ED 021 854, it gives updated ordering information and includes additional abstracts of materials…

The source book was compiled to contain the materials supplemental to a planning guide designed to assist educational leaders at the district level with planning and implementing a program of career education. Illustrations and forms too voluminous to be contained in the guide are organized by steps recommended for planning: (1) conduct needs…

In September, 1969, a radically innovative program for middle school children was undertaken at Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School, one of eight junior high schools in School District 4J, Eugene, Oregon. Because the Roosevelt program is one that goes far beyond the usual idea of innovation, it is anticipated that this program description will…

This paper proposes an Evaluator Development Program to meet the need for improvement and development in educational evaluation. The objective is to enhance effective evaluation processes in elementary, secondary, and higher education through the institutionalization of evaluator roles within differential settings. The program involves the…

This pamphlet contains selected articles submitted as entries in the 1969 Kazanjian Awards Program for the Teaching of Economics. In these short articles teachers disclose educational strategies in precise step-by-step detail, indicating exactly how they conveyed an economic fact, problem, or concept to their students. The articles are grouped by…

Developed as a multi-county effort, this project sought to design model career education programs involving: (1) Elementary Orientation, (2) Work Experience, (3) Intensive Teaching, (4) Curriculum Development for Underachievers, and (5) Placement and Followup. In addition to improving and evaluating vocational education at the 11th and 12th grade…

This is one of four studies which review the state of the art of globalized curriculum development. This new view requires teachers and children to have an ability to deal with tremendous complexity, see situations in new ways - outside past experience - and to perceive system dynamics instead of structural statics. It is a much broader…

The 3-year Opelika City (Alabama) School-Community Career Education Project sought to make career education central and not just an adjunct to the education program in Opelika schools. Development of the project was carried out through four phases: (1) Staff training and development, (2) curriculum development and revisions, (3) guidance, and (4)…

Field testing and evaluation of Project HEAR (Human Educational Awareness Resource) are reported in this document. The program described consists of Primary, Intermediate, and Secondary Learning Units (resource curriculum materials) which are non-sexist, ungraded, skill-building, student-centered, sequentially organized, and experiential. The…

The University of Georgia's Anthropology Curriculum Project (ACP) is viewed in retrospect and certain developments of the project are appraised in light of current school problems. Three questions were asked in an evaluation of the project: (1) can elementary children learn anthropology as a single discipline? (Answer, yes); (2) is there a…

A project for preparing and testing innovative curriculum materials for the study of religion in elementary social studies is described. The main objective of the project is to demonstrate that the study of religion is a necessity in the social education and personal development of children. Intended as an aid for teaching a student about his own…

Three schools in Minnesota have designed a shared-resource project to address the areas of career, gifted and talented, and chemical and drug education, to provide guidance and counseling services, to add and enhance course offerings, and to develop an individualized instruction program (IEP) for every tenth- and eleventh-grade student. (MM)

This report, which focuses on improving education in rural Nebraska, grew out of a 2-week teachers' institute held in Walthill, Nebraska, in June 1993. "Introduction: The Vision of Community-Based Schools and the Future of Rural Places" (Toni Haas, Paul Nachtigal) examines current civic and social trends in rural communities and the role…