At the Northview Elementary School in Manhattan, Kansas, the position of Assisting Teacher was developed to help teachers handle their work load. The position is filled by an experienced teacher who teaches half time and assists at the building level, with individual teachers, and in professional growth and development the rest of the time.…

Nursing knowledge is developing quickly. This fact, along with the recognized need for general education courses, has helped nursing move into the mainstream of higher education. New approaches to curriculum organization and to teaching nursing should be considered to provide the best possible education to future nurses. (CH)

The push toward scholarly understanding of the theoretical bases of human movement is taking attention away from what most physical educators actually do for a living, leaving graduates with no readily marketable skills. Advice to individual physical educators and the collective profession is given. (MT)

Describes how a group of teachers of grades three through eight initiated and carried out a project that reformed their school's writing curriculum. (ARH)

Discusses how the process of reflective deliberation can help schools become sites of significant curriculum development, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Offers a process and a set of principles which may be used to guide school-level curriculum deliberation. (GEA)

Discusses the problems facing writers of curriculum documents. Concentrating on the implementation problems in elementary science education, the author attempts to clarify how a careful design of curriculum materials can improve the implementation process and outcomes. States that, for initial implementation efforts, a structured approach is more…

Reviews data collected in a 1982 national survey of state social studies coordinators which shows the patterns of textbook adoptions in the area of high school geography for the 20 states that use statewide adoption. Concludes that throughout the 1970s and early 1980s Texas's impact on other states' geography selections was almost nonexistent.…

The Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) was established in 1972 as an independent and government sponsored educational research and development organization. The responsibilities of KEDI include conducting research and disseminating research findings. (RB)

Discusses a 1986 study to find out how the states were dealing with the Perkins Act mandate to establish technical committees to advise on curriculum development in priority occupational fields. Benefits include rapport with local employers, benefits to programs, staff development, and greater secondary/postsecondary articulation. (JOW)

Describes Utah's efforts to improve their technology education program to help their students become technologically literate. Their new curricula are organized around the cluster areas of communication, manufacturing, construction, and energy/power/transportation. (JOW)

Outlines how to develop and write an effective curriculum governance document to be used in creating and monitoring curriculum development. Includes specific steps to consider in developing the document. (MD)

In this article, Elliot Eisner defends the sections he wrote for the Getty Trust report entitled "Beyond Creating: The Place of Art in American Schools." (JDH)

Provides a four-category conceptualization of art which identifies the means of making art and the various elements of art. Discusses the aims of art and reasons for creating it. Examines the relationship that should exist between the ends and means of creating art and how it is taught and learned in schools. (JDH)

Defines future studies, identifies several books which may serve as resources for future studies, and offers a collection of ten activities which may be used to "futurize" a classroom. (JDH)

As the curriculum is transformed to ensure that students are computer literate, we must remember that humanities are a large portion of both the substance and the essential values of learning. New knowledge about women of all racial and ethnic groups must be integrated into the liberal arts curriculum. (MT)