The Arctic Climate Modeling Program (ACMP) offered yearlong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professional development to teachers in rural Alaska. Teacher training focused on introducing youth to workforce technologies used in Arctic research. Due to challenges in making professional development accessible to rural teachers, ACMP…

Siedentop and Locke (1997) proposed three critical elements that must exist in our profession to make a difference and achieve systemic success in physical education (SSPE): (a) quality PE in the schools, (b) effective physical education teacher education (PETE)programs, and (c) a working relationship between the two. Using Cuban's (1992)…

This article examines the relationship between knowledge and policy in French-speaking Belgium. It starts by describing Belgium as a consociational democracy, i.e. a society that is largely organised around integrated pillars of society (Catholic, secular), each of which provides a wide range of services (educational, training, health, health…

Many undergraduate liberal arts institutions offer computer science majors. This article illustrates how quality computer science programs can be realized in a wide variety of liberal arts settings by describing and contrasting the actual programs at five liberal arts colleges: Williams College, Kalamazoo College, the State University of New York…

Economic success is an aim of governments around the world. Their "human capital" stance towards higher education implies the need to develop graduates' capabilities to the full. The concept of graduate "employability", currently being developed in the light of theory and empirical data, is beginning to find acceptance in the…

Author looked at the changing status of sex education in Europe, and considered the implications for British schools. (Editor/RK)

Describes one of the early uses of specific objectives in curriculum development. Reprint from April 1921 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)

Author continued the feature series on the common curriculum by showing how one secondary school attempted to keep the options open as long as possible. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of the paper is to set forth a rationale and proposal for relating the construct of career development to the more global theory of process education. (Author)

A discussion of the complex interrelationships that impinge upon the community college, and how systems development might assist in the decision-making process. (Author)

Discusses curriculum planning and development as they relate specifically to community education programs, emphasizing the importance of a process orientation to the task of curriculum development. (JG)

Presents six questions that need to be considered when contemplating curriculum development, and then presents the curriculum development model in use at the University of Adelaide, Great Britain. (PG)

Report of research dealing with the relationship between decentralization in New York City and curriculum development, change, and evaluation in the community school districts of the public school system. (EH)

A review and summary of the background and purposes of the NCSS Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines are presented. (KM)