This revised curriculum guide was prepared to help speech teachers and administrators gain greater sensitivity to the importance of speech education in the curriculum and to provide a digest of the characteristics and instructional practices which could contribute to superior speech education programs. The topics of the first nine chapters are speech education in a democracy, achieving the objectives of speech education, activity programs for speech education, a suggested curriculum for a basic speech course, discussion and debate, oral interpretation, educational drama, radio and television in speech education, and a general speech program inventory for secondary schools. Chapter ten is a bibliography in which items are listed under the categories of general speech philosophy, methods and resource materials, testing and evaluation, high school textbooks, and college texts for reference. This chapter also contains a list of sources for speech education materials and equipment. (JM)