Shorthand is threatened by office automation and by students who have neither the time nor inclination to spend two years learning symbolic shorthand. However, there is a positive movement to adopt alphabetic shorthand for occupational and personal use. (JOW)

Undergraduate home economics degree-granting programs are becoming more and more diverse. This movement has led to considerable debate about whether the specialized programs are home economics and whether the graduates are home economists. This article reviews some of these issues and makes recommendations for curriculum planning. (Author)

Calls for recognition of the social and educational factors that perpetuate technical approaches in education, for the need to revise our own perspective of families within critical and interpretive modes, and for the need to clarify the role of family studies within general education. (JOW)

Discusses a study to gain data enabling curricula planners and business educators to plan an effective word processing curriculum, to determine basic skills and attitudes needed by word processing operators, and to make recommendations to help word processor operators increase productivity. (JOW)

Discusses situations through which citizens of all ages can come to understand in detail the issues and processes which inform our lives and our society, thus increasing awareness not only of the large variety of issues in government but of technicalities and processes of their resolution. (WL)

The metric system is almost upon us. What progress is being made in converting curricula? (Editor)

Considers the controversy between the pro-liberal arts and journalism/public relations advocates over the design of a public relations curriculum. (See CS 710 195) (RB)

This publication highlights the accomplishments of the first five years of the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) in advancing education and environmental literacy. The booklet is user-friendly and summarizes the major activities and impacts made by 18 professionals across the United States. Some of the positive outcomes that…

This issue of "Policy Perspectives" explores the obligation of institutions of higher education to prepare students for lives of citizenship in addition to individual success. The truth is that colleges and universities have never actually done much to educate students for lives of civic and political engagement. The real issue is what they must…

A group of health care ethicists and palliative care experts convened by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing developed a set of competencies that should be achieved through nursing curricula. The purpose of the 15 competency statements is to assist nurse educators in incorporating end-of-life content into nursing curricula. Every…

Recent advances in computer technologies have provided new tools for accessing complex data for classroom inquiry. The effectiveness of these tools for learning depends on the extent to which students learn to engage them reflectively. From an analysis of the design of an earth science inquiry unit using complex datasets, the authors (researchers…

This booklet is a product of the Dan O'Brien Education Program, which was created in 1993 by the Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouse on Educational Management. The program was designed to help young people gain the most from their education. It outlines five lessons for setting and achieving goals: (1) window of opportunity; (2)…

This paper explores the development of the "ecological human brain" in children, children's intellectual culture of "naturalist intelligence," and developmentally and culturally congruent curricula for young children. In early cognitive development, nature-given perception conducts thought. In contrast, for adults, intellectual…

Through its High Schools That Work initiative, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has worked with states and schools to improve students' academic and technical achievement. Through this initiative, the SREB has defined what really matters in helping students achieve. This report addresses eight "things that matter most" in…