Reports classroom observations of Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) as implemented in a southern California elementary school. Discusses the complex set of requirements that curriculum integration must meet to fulfill its considerable promise. (RS)

Suggests that by linking storytelling with children's garden programs, public gardens may serve to educate children about the processes that underlie and interweave diverse cultures' seasonal traditions. These ideas have been developed and tried in programs since 1988 at San Francisco's Strybing Arboretum's Children's Garden. (LZ)

Describes the Older Adults Network of the International Council for Adult Education and its efforts to identify educational needs common to older adults worldwide. Offers brief descriptions of 12 exemplary programs funded by the network, which focus on such concerns as literacy, retirement, social action, vocational training, and cultural…

Describes how three groups of educators (in a medical school, a psychology department, and a journalism school) are helping instructors and students to recognize, manage, and use ignorance to promote learning. (SR)

Describes a performance art project conceived and carried out over several weeks with ninth grade students at San Francisco School of the Arts, relocated in a building without an equipped theater space. (SR)

Presents annotations of 13 conference papers, journal articles, and other documents from the ERIC database (published between 1988 and 1991) that discuss general aspects of writing across the curriculum and writing to learn, as well as strengths and weaknesses of specific programs. (RS)

The importance of investigating the sun's interior is discussed. One method for probing the interiors of some pulsating stars is described. The relationship between the sun's solar oscillation frequencies and the sun's solar cycles is discussed. A project to place six instruments around the world to observe the sun's oscillations (GONG) is…

Identifies a program design sequence for establishing a faculty mentoring program. Outlines Western Carolina University's New Faculty Mentoring Program: goals, eligibility, key features, benefits, mentor's roles, participant's responsibilities, what has been learned, and on-going issues. (SR)

Describes how an analysis of Ontario Hydro's conversion of 20,000 pages of paper manuals to online documentation established the scope of the project, provided a set of design criteria, and recommended the use of Standard Generalized Markup Language to create the new documentation and the purchase of the "Dinatext" program to produce it.…

Offers a case history of the development of the Silicon Graphics "IRIS InSight" system, a system for viewing on-line documentation using Standard Generalized Markup Language. Notes that SGML's explicit encoding of structure and separation of structure and presentation make possible structure-based search, alternative structural views of…

Discusses specific objectives related to the three-year Target Four Reading Program developed by the staff at Central School in Roundup, Montana. (RS)

Suggests that a special quality of reinforced learning can take place by use of the preshow workshop, which plants the seeds of thought and actions. Illustrates the method by discussing two practical but utterly different models for preshow workshops. (RS)

Describes the school reading program at Cary Woods Elementary School (in Auburn, Alabama), one of several school reading programs designated by the International Reading Association as exemplary. (SR)

Describes the reading program at G. C. Burkhead Elementary School (in Elizabethtown, Kentucky), one of several school reading programs designated by the International Reading Association as exemplary. (SR)

The evolution of the African-American Studies program at Temple University (Pennsylvania) from the early 1970s to the present is chronicled, from establishment of the Afro-Asian Institute in 1970 through its conversion to the Pan-African Studies department, retrenchment and reduction, reconstruction, and creation of a graduate program in 1988.…