An art curriculum for students (6-16 years old) with moderate learning difficulties begins with color and moves through such topics as line, shape, texture, and pattern. Information is provided for junior children (5-9 years), middle school children (9-14 years), and senior children (14 and over). (CL)

Urges a curriculum redefinition that encompasses mass media and telecommunication with journalism and broadcasting. (PD)

Calls for a continuous review of core curricula and advanced courses to ensure that media students develop skills to meet the requirements of a rapidly evolving media environment. (PD)

Curriculum is an event which goes beyond the curriculum guide because of the many interactions involved. It is situated in a classroom, personal, social, historical, and political context. The implications of the definition for curriculum developers and researchers are discussed. (MT)

The author, asserting that all teachers are teachers of gifted students, suggests an interdisciplinary approach to adapting curriculum. (CL)

Inservice approaches to curriculum development for teachers of gifted students should emphasize the approach. Teachers should understand thinking skills so that they can help pupils think efficiently and then express those thoughts. (CL)

Provides information deleted, for space reasons, from an article by the same authors in "The Black Scholar" March-April 1984. Identifies six alternative intellectual foci to be included in Black Studies courses and discusses briefly the development of a paradigm for the study of the Black experience. Also provides footnotes omitted from the…

Discusses current problems in chemical engineering education at the University of Queensland (including those related to the laboratory, student/staff ration, literacy, motivation, course content, and structural changes). Also describes a proposed plan of the Queensland department to implement a scheme for resource-based education in chemical…

The article discusses the teacher's requirements for knowledge regarding teaching as well as reading. A teaching model's seven components are reviewed as are components of a reading curriculum model. An alternative approach is proposed that focuses on school change. (CL)

The author points out the negative and limiting implications of the prevailing approach for identifying gifted children and asserts that the approach should be replaced by a model in which a separate identification step is replaced by curriculum-imbedded and curriculum determinitive processes. (CL)

Discusses implications of Saskatchewan's nine-year-old Division IV English curriculum guide of the final report on the quality and future direction of education in the province, published in February 1984 by the Minister's Advisory Committee on Curriculum and Instruction Review. Suggests revision to bring English curricula into line with the new…

The paper presents a model for organizing in formation about severely handicapped learners by categorizing educational advances into what-to-teach variables (goal selection), instruction variables, and curriculum modification. (Author/CL)

Business educators are faced with a great challenge--to acquaint students with new technology and prepare them to function to their fullest potential. The success of the future depends upon training students for the office of tomorrow. (JOW)

Describes the technology education program developed at Rice Lake, Wisconsin, High School. The program was changed from industrial arts to technology education to keep pace with the technological advancements in society. (JOW)

The revised 1983 National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines are printed here in their entirety. (RM)