The model described here is composed of five elements: diagnostic procedures, selective review, foundations block, methods block, and professional block. (DS)

Educational leaders must learn to identify influences and pressures and to deal with them with tact and skill while marshaling solid community support and understanding. (Author/IRT)

Describes how a boys' grammar school set up and successfully ran an A-level psychology course. (BR)

A nursing professor at the University of Kansas discusses the integrated and logistic curriculum approaches and tells how the school of nursing correlated its curriculum to include both approaches. (MF)

The author encourages educators to examine the significance and content of recently developed leisure studies programs in order to make them more responsive to social needs. (GW)

The value of curricular theory lies not in its specificity but in the questions it generates. (MM)

The importance of sex education for mentally handicapped persons is stressed and 18 specific recommendations are made for establishing adequate programs. (GW)

Charles Suhor, deputy executive director of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), responds to Allan Glatthorn's charge that the NCTE is reluctant to offer specific recommendations about curricular content. (TE)

Summarizes a recent Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools (CREMS) literature review on effective kindergarten and preschool programs. Over the past 20 years, kindergarten enrollment has expanded, the students are older, and the days are getting longer. Preschool enrollment has also grown tremendously. Effective programs are briefly…

Aspects of curriculum affecting the success of mainstreaming handicapped students are considered. The concepts of explicity, hidden, and absent curricula are discussed relative to curricular adaptations. A "Curriculum Adaptation Guide" is presented to assist in the selection and adaptation of curricular elements. (Author/DB)

This article describes the Israel Curriculum Centre and gives a brief history of its role in Israeli society. The goals of the centre include: publishing syllabuses for all subjects, developing instructional materials that correspond to the syllabuses, and diffusing and implementing instructional products based on the syllabuses. (RB)

One approach to curriculum revision for disabled students involves five steps: determining curriculum aims, determining curriculum goals, assessing program and resources, developing the curriculum, and implementing and evaluating the curriculum. (CL)

Respite care curriculum content, training approaches, and evaluation strategies are reviewed and evaluated. The need for social and ecological validity in both the content and process of instruction is discussed, as are key elements for training activities. Specific attention is drawn to the need for individualized training and curriculum…

Provides marketing and distributive education (MDE) teachers with a framework for integrating specific economic concepts within seven common MDE units of instruction. Suggests appropriate teaching activities as well as some current and future economic issues that should be considered in MDE curriculum development activities. (JOW)

This book comprehensively reviews teaching-learning models that can be used in the development and implementation of a curriculum for gifted students. The second edition reflects the many changes that have occurred in gifted education. The field of gifted education has seen new program models developed, more research accomplished, and new…