This report presents a data-collection plan for addressing these questions: (1) What were the New American Schools (NAS) like before they implemented their restructuring design efforts? (2) How have these evolved over time? (3) Are the critical components of the NAS designs being implemented across a wide array of schools? (4) Do the NAS designs…

This guide describes the 'eyes, yardsticks, and noses' that will help communities consider goals for mathematics education, evaluate curricula, and plan a successful adoption process. This guide focuses on the 13 programs supported by the K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center, though many of the ideas discussed are not specific to these particular…

This report examines leadership and the impact of a leadership-education retreat through the eyes of six undergraduate college men who participated in the Institute of Men of Principle at a Midwestern College. The report relates the results of a study on what influences shaped the definition and experience of leadership for the participants of the…

Approximately every ten years, all academic departments at Randolph-Macon Womans College (RMWC) are required to conduct a departmental review. This review entails documenting and reflecting upon a number of factors including curriculum, staffing, workload, student success, enrollment, assessment, and facilities with the input of off campus…

Noting that the wealth of parenting curricula available poses a challenge to identifying the more appropriate curricula for a particular group, this guide is designed to enable more effective and efficient selection of curricula for parent education. The guide describes and evaluates 41 parenting programs and is divided into two major sections.…

Curricular development should be geared toward the study of industrial technology and must meet the needs of students. (MS)

Author's aim was to discuss the problems of evaluating the arts curriculum in the light of the struggle of a school system to establish curriculum evaluation as a vital link in curriculum development. (Author/RK)

Discusses the need for more mathematics curriculum revision, especially at the elementary level, and for the development of tests to test the material being taught. (GB)

Whether or not a person consciously studies the past, he has in his mind a conception of past events. (GB)

Authors believe education should combine inner values with academic principles to achieve a meaningful balance. (PG)

Emphasis on the specific advantages of PPBS for principals, with special attention to evaluation as a component of PPBS and how it can improve principals' decision-making. (Editor)

The Fleishmann study is probably the most comprehensive of any undertaken of the schools in New York State; article summarizes some of the major reforms recommended by the Fleischmann Commission. (DM)

Some early results are reported of a study to examine trends of student evaluations in college level physics courses. Higher ratings were consistently given for higher level courses. (PS)

Describes content and methodology of a course joining two theoretical areas of learning. (SP)