The outdoor recreation industry faces the challenge of recruiting the next generation of professionals. This study examined factors that may influence young adults' interest in outdoor recreation careers, including participation in organized and unorganized outdoor recreation as a youth, connection to nature (CTN), racial identity, and…

Connection to nature (CTN) can help promote environmental engagement requisite for addressing extreme environmental challenges. Current generations, however, may be less connected to nature than previous ones. Spending time in nature can counter this disconnect, particularly among children. In relation to CTN, this study evaluates the relative…

Texas is taking a multipronged approach to improving developmental education delivery and increasing student success rates by aggressively pursuing programmatic, research, and instructional strategies that will boost college completion and help reach labor market goals. Texas higher education has committed itself to providing improved and more…

Children's connection to nature (CTN) is declining with each generation, a concerning trend given that CTN is positively linked to wellbeing and environmentalism. A primary cause of this decline is that twenty-first-century youth engage with screens for several hours each day, which to a large extent replaces nature-based play. Researchers have…

The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is an alliance of drug abuse treatment programs and research centers testing new interventions and implementation factors for treating alcohol and drug use disorders. A workforce survey distributed to those providing direct services in 295 treatment units in the CTN obtained responses…

Compares three papers on curricula analysis, two of which have appeared in CTN summer, 1968 edition. (DE)

A reaction to a previous article by Morris Finder (CTN; n5 pp55-57 Spr '70) in which he argues that instructional intent should be precise, but only to the extent that some desired behavioral objectives can be defined. Deplores the phenomenon known as "endless specificity" which characterizes the construction of some sets of behavioral objectives.…

This issue of the journal of the "Curriculum Theory Network" contains four major articles on aspects of the curriculum. Karplus, using Science Curriculum Improvement Study as an example, presents three guidelines for developing elementary school science curricula: separate "experience" and "concept" goals; use developmental and learning theories;…

Explains some of the implied assumptions about the nature of goals as things among which persons may reasonably choose or about the behavior of personal preferences or both -- inherent in proposed approaches to the selection and definition of instructional goals by Grotelueschen and Gooler (CTN; Nos. 8-9, pp7-21 1971-72). Argues that an…

How the Catholic TV Network of Chicago services parishes, schools, community. (Author)