As instructional leaders, principals can ensure that international education is a strong curriculum component by keeping current on world affairs, involving staff members in curriculum development, and surveying all the international resources in the surrounding community. (MLH)

Data from a 10-year study involving over 1,000 dyslexics, age 7-15, went into the development of the Alphabetic Phonics curriculum. One aspect of the curriculum, the Syllable Division Formulas, is described. It emphasizes scientific, automatic, multisensory procedures for dividing longer words into easily read syllables. (Author/JDD)

The emergence of bioactive peptides and proteins as new drug species poses formidable problems for the pharmaceutical scientist. Implications for revision or change in undergraduate and graduate pharmaceutics curricula derive from the biopharmaceutical, pharmacokinetic, and physiochemical aspects of the new drug species, which differ from…

The assumptions of career education for intellectually and academically gifted students are examined with reference to new research about the characteristics of these students. It is suggested changes in career education in gifted programs are warranted. Discussion relates four initiatives for changes to the issues of careerism and…

By opening up to the possibilities of integrative curriculum, teachers can provide students with the means to connect experiences, to give meaning to unrelated experiences, and to make life more predictable through pattern recognition and creation. An integrative curriculum holds an endless challenge for teacher and student. (JOW)

Describes the planning process used by the Greenwich, Connecticut, public schools when it reorganized its junior high schools into middle schools. (JOW)

A survey by Illinois Plan for Home Economics Education of 51 state supervisors of vocational home economics found that 40 have recently revised the secondary home economics curriculum; only 10 had research underway in support of home economics; most favored family and/or family-work issues in the curriculum; and 40 considered their home economics…

Discusses the factors that must be considered by the issue-centered advocates in order to successfully oppose the attack on social studies by those advocating U.S. history and geography at the center of the curriculum. Suggests that social studies professionals should organize and that a national clearinghouse for issue-centered materials be…

This article surveys the current state of curriculum options for gifted preschoolers, and provides data from a survey of 60 educators of preschoolers in South Carolina concerning attitudes about appropriate curricula and instruction. Drawing on these results a list of recommendations for improvements in preschool programs is offered. (PB)

Gifted learners can be challenged by extending and enriching the mandated curriculum through the use of children's literature. Demonstrated is the use of the book "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" as a mechanism for learning about authorship, research skills, story evaluation, simple machines, problem solving, and technological change. (PB)

Discusses the problems of values education and posits that curriculum itself is a value offered to learners by teachers and by the social and cultural milieu in which it takes place. Discusses three orientations to curriculum theorizing: the intellectual theorist, the social behaviorist, and the experientialist. (JOW)

The staff development process a school district used to develop a writing-across-the-curriculum program is described. The process's six essential elements involve exploring, shaping, implementing, revising, sharing, and publishing, could be applied to other staff development efforts. (CB)

Offered is a test of 10 questions to help principals evaluate the kindergarten curriculum in their schools. A point grading system is included. Appended are 22 references as well as a list of books and associations. (SI)

Argues for moral context in nursing education. Discusses steps taken at the University of Colorado School of Nursing to emphasize human caregiving in the curriculum. Also argues that the preferred future for nursing education is a postbaccalaureate program in human caring, health, and healing that leads to the nursing doctorate. (CH)

The development of curricula for nursing education has been a concern of nurse scholars since the genesis of the Standard Curriculum in 1917. The challenge is to build on this knowledge using traditional and nontraditional methods. If doctorally prepared nurses are to lead their profession, nursing history cannot be merely an elective. (Author/JOW)