In 1983 Manchester High School (CT) became involved in a five-year planning process to reshape the school curriculum through redefinition of the competencies needed by its students to achieve success in the future. The five-year plan is outlined along with a discussion of establishing a flexible planning process that allows the school to shape the…

Essential leadership skills for curriculum developers are identified. (GW)

Without active involvement in curriculum development by education professionals and the public, curriculum stagnation, faddism, and traditionalism are likely. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development must meet the challenge of reversing the negative aspects of privatism and restoring credibility and a sense of mission to the…

Citizenship education remains the central focus of the social studies curriculum. A number of organizations are taking steps to promote social studies in elementary and secondary education and to increase its global content. (MLF)

Describes futures programs at seven schools that (1) treat the study of the future as an investigation of alternatives; (2) place emphasis on process, not content; (3) see futures studies as a form of values clarification; and (4) display a consistent concern with the development of a sense of consequence. (MLF)

A 36-person task force examined futures literature, listed 41 trends that could have an impact on education, and selected 15 implications of these trends as having the most significance for Virginia Beach, Virginia, schools. (MLF)

Article evaluates a commercially available, taped discussion by R. Tyler and J. Goodlad on the past and future directions of American public education. (GW)

As European schools have become more autonomous, inservice education has changed from a way to update professional knowledge to a tool for change. This article describes recent inservice education developments, emerging guidelines, choices and trends, and problems and challenges. School-based programs are challenged by competing agency programs…

Interviews with 13 educators who have been deeply involved with differentiated staffing, career ladder programs, or both provided the data for this analysis of why differentiated staffing didn't work, how the two concepts differ, why career ladders are currently popular, and how likely the career ladder concept is to succeed. (PGD)

The power of the computer to transform learning calls for educators to construct a new view of educational needs in order to make educational system changes that will benefit society. (MLF)

Finding that its curriculum renewal and adoption process was flawed, the Anchorage School District (AK) instituted new holistic process that identified major trends of the future and then developed groups of skills necessary for living in that future. Curriculum was reworked to prepare students to live in a world that demands flexibility,…

Article emphasizes the need for educators to turn their attention to the future needs of students and the educational system as it may be in the future. (RK)

Technology education is a new direction in education and requires a shift to a more universal and process-oriented educational approach. The Bernard High School (NJ) has replaced its industrial arts program with a totally articulated technology education program that will become effective in fall 1987. (MD)

Teacher requirements for media centers will change from checking out materials to be used in the classroom to development of personalized curriculum materials; future centers will provide resources and facilities to meet these individual teacher needs. (JD)