Schools often fail to offer minoritized student groups access to quality STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education experiences. While policymakers should systemically address this curriculum gap problem, out-of-school educational programs offer an important way to provide quality STEM instruction while integrating students'…

Teacher education for sustainability is a central part of integrating sustainability into classrooms and schools. However, educating for sustainability is not limited to increased content knowledge; rather it encompasses different forms of knowledge that embrace the normative, dynamic and action-oriented nature of sustainability. Curriculum for a…

Over the last decade, cost pressures, technology, automation, globalisation, de-regulation, and changing client relationships have transformed the practice of law, but legal education has been slow to respond. Deciding what learning objectives a law degree ought to prioritise, and how to best strike the balance between vocational and academic…

Like the "phoenix," technology education (TE) can, under the right circumstances, give life to new programs--curricula with different emphases and directions from technology education, yet sharing a common heritage: the belief that applied technology will continue to shape the world. How that shaping process takes place--and the problems that it…

This article describes one school district department's efforts to train and support teachers in providing effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment methods to their students. This large, K-12 district embraces the spectrum of low to high SES schools, a large number of gifted students from diverse populations, and a variety of gifted…

The president of the University of Phoenix calls its centralized course-development process a "safety net" for instructors. Critics call it a "cookie-cutter approach." (EV)

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad of success stories are being forged among…

Reviews the efforts of the humanities faculty at Valencia Community College (Florida) to restructure the curriculum to allow more time for material to be covered, and to locate, or write, appropriate texts to teach students to examine primary sources intelligently and to identify and organize facts and ideas. (AYC)

A comprehensive school health education program should attempt to offer a variety of appropriate health learning experiences in suitable grade levels with health topics that are: based on a realistic combination of interests, values, and needs; planned in coordination with an adequate cross section of school and community leaders; and taught with…

Based on the belief that critical thinking patterns, language abilities, and social skills that develop from birth to age 6 are foundational to children's sociomoral development, the Phoenix Project was developed to explore the factors contributing to and affecting children's sociomoral development. This pilot project was carried out by the…

Presents a biology course developed for learning disabled (LD) and emotionally handicapped (EH) students at Alhambra High School, Phoenix, Arizona. Description of the program, learning activities used, and some suggestions for successful teaching are also included. (HM)

Describes the Ecology Explorers, the community education component of Arizona State University's Central Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project, which offers teacher internship programs that link university researchers, K-12 teachers, and students in studying urban ecology. Explains that student neighborhoods are dynamic ecosystems…

Presents an interview with Thomas McGovern, professor and cofounder of the interdisciplinary Department of Integrative Studies at Arizona State University West (Phoenix, Arizona). Focuses on McGovern's interest in curricular reform, his view related to any benefits for psychology from interacting with other disciplines, and the composition of…

Discussion of nontraditional entrepreneurial universities and challenges that they pose to library administrators at more traditional universities highlights experiences at the University of Phoenix (Arizona). Topics addressed include adult learning theories; curriculum development; learning resource services; accreditation issues; fair use;…

Offers suggestions to help content-centered social studies teachers on the secondary level achieve their objectives in the area of values. The approach is based on development of values-related situations and problems from within the subject-matter content. A study is described in which this approach was tested in 18 11th-grade American history…