A program model for elementary career education is based on a rationale and focus emphasizing the integration of significant early experiences at home and at school. (KM)

Exemplary career education programs and materials for grades 7,8, and 9 are surveyed. A model program suggests content and activity emphases. (KM)

An alternative course to the normally sex-assigned shop and homemaking classes is based on six modular units exploring information useful to everyone, regardless of sex or life-style. (KM)

When career education arrived, this school district found it could enhance and broaden existing social studies programs. K-12 programs and resource materials developed are examples of the use of career education as a catalyst for change. (KM)

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)

Forty-eight entries include journal articles, books, curriculum guides, conference reports, and speeches on career education. Topics cover general overviews, resource materials, activity units and program descriptions. (KM)

Three general areas of disagreement in a contract dispute form the setting of a role-playing activity which provides a social studies model in labor history. (KM)

Noting the very recent popularity of violence as a topic among historians, American history is reviewed to reveal the sources of this occurrence of historical amnesia. (KM)

A new, effective mode of authority to face a growing anarchic ideology would be required to be open, public, and accountable; flexible and individualized; reduced in scope and independent of both private and governmental sectors. (KM)

The decision-making process for choosing social studies instructional materials is outlined in five steps. (KM)

Changes in language are suggested to eliminate phraseology that reflects outdated assumptions concerning women. (Author)

An analysis of the use of the Project materials during the 1970-71 school year indicated that the materials were most frequently used as supplementary readings; teachers usually learned about the materials through professional literature rather than from publishers agents, teacher educators, or from teacher workshops; the contribution of the…

To test materials and teaching strategies for a public issues curriculum, staff members of the Project planned, taught, and evaluated a three-year experimental program in a large high school. Evaluation data is presented. (JB)

TM and its potential uses for creative development of teacher personalities is discussed. (JB)

The selections of Chinese writing included in this feature are an attempt to help listen to the collective voice of China, to provide teachers with materials which will help students place themselves within the Chinese culture. The article is divided into sections entitled Poetry, Peking Opera, Picture Story Books, Crosstalk, Kuaiban (Chinese…