This article is an allegory which presents the sense of frustration evident in so many college students because of irrelevant curriculum requirements that the student neither wants nor needs. (HS)

Describes the educational reform of the Italian middle school system from a fragmented system of separate vocational and academic schools to a unified comprehensive middle school system. Effects on the high school system are also mentioned. (AN)

The author discusses scientific literacy from the perspective of a scientifically and educationally unsophisticated society. (Editor)

Presented in this article is the author's own experience in science curriculum change. (Editor)

In this article two factors of student discontent, along with partial solutions, are brought to our attention. (Editor)

Follow Through Program projects for American Indian children are discussed. (DB)

Discusses the relation between educational and political components of contemporary student rebellion, and indicates how curriculum workers are to respond to the potentially revolutionary situation in our schools. (DE)

The history of the development of a secular curriculum for Catholic schools in mid-nineteenth century England. (RA)

Describes a practical approach to occupational curriculum development with a high priority assigned to the writing of educational objectives. (GR)

Describes the development of a test for evaluating acquisition of process skills in middle school science students. (CP)

An attempt to analyze job functions an instructional technologist performs in order to develop training programs. (AK)

The author remarks on the purpose(s) and content of existing geometry courses and offers alternative purposes and goals for geometry courses and some consequences of this alternative point of view. (JG)