Describes a one-semester course which consists of undergraduate-oriented talks by faculty members and industrial scientists, reading assignments concerning human elements, and an introduction to chemical literature. Indicates that the course has the flexibility to change as other areas of need are identified. (CC)

A one-year pilot project was designed as the model for a State Career Education Instructional System. Featured were a summer workshop, inservice education, and development of prototype instructional units. Career Economics was chosen to serve as a nucleus of the career education approach. (KM)

This new curriculum project in the social studies is designed to draw upon a variety of sources, to have students gain political knowledge and skills in such a way that they are immediately applicable, to be a non-partisan, practical course. (Author/JB)

Describes a movement that has been in the works for over a decade in West Virginia. (Editor)

At five IMPACT sites, schools located near each other in southeast Alabama, students were involved in an experimental curriculum, designed to achieve a high degree of compatibility between the teaching of the arts and the humanities and the basic program of studies. (Author/RK)

The six community countries that compose the European Coal and Steel Community schools offer several unique features among which is the teaching of history and geography without a regional emphasis, while the curriculum is built around a European rather than a national point of view. (Author/JN)

Adult learning theory might be summed up in three words--need, effort and satisfaction. An adult will learn once a need has been identified, effort expended to satisfy that need, and the need finally being satisfied. (Author)

Warns that behavioral objectives models because of their apparent precision and certainty could still independence of thought, originality, initiative, and imagination in students. (DS)

Affirms that the inquiry procedure, most suitable when investigative skills are needed, requires adequate curriculum design and materials, research resources, and teacher preparation. (DS)

Study is part of an ongoing research program whose cumulatime aim is to generate empirically validated hierarchical curriculum sequences in several basic skill areas appropriate to an early learning curriculum. (Author)

The editorial raises questions for curriculum designers: Should standards of physics content be lowered to meet lower academic ability? How much emphasis should physics be given? How much specialization is suitable? When should specialization be introduced? (PS)

Briefly describes the characteristics of process, topic, thematic, applied science, environmental, project, and concept approaches to science curriculum development, and explains why a patterns" approach was used in this project. Sketches the content, teaching, and evaluation of the course. (AL)