Educational leaders must learn to identify influences and pressures and to deal with them with tact and skill while marshaling solid community support and understanding. (Author/IRT)

Curriculum decisions should be made with awareness of the gains already made, commitment to assessment of the conditions that exist and the work undone, sensitivity to the emerging needs of the students and the community, and with thorough knowledge of how change best occurs in schools. (Author/IRT)

There exist today two groups, each seeing the world through different eyes-one cool, detached, rational; the other passionate, involved, visceral. Thus the conflict has developed between those who wish to experience the environment and those who would control it. (Author/RK)

Multidisciplinary thinking is advocated as a necessary approach to curriculum development in the light of the emergence of a global society, the rate of social change, the information explosion, and new theories about reality. (GW)

Author feels that exposure to alternative life styles is an important part of the responsibility of any school. (GB)

A futures perspective on learning calls for a redefinition of education. Competencies will go beyond basic skills and the emphasis will be on learning how to learn. (Author)

To deal with the rapidly germinating technosocial climates of the twentieth century, educators must develop "educational foresight." Schools' challenges will include changes in structural organization and staff deployment, a reformulated curriculum and schedule, and new "waves" of microelectronics and information to help…

Discusses the difficulties, conflicts, and dilemmas of growing up in America today and the positive steps that educators can take to facilitate this maturation process. (Author/JG)

Working together, schools and families can provide a character-based approach to sexuality education. Schools can give parents a wake-up call, provide historical perspective, share good news, encourage parents to talk with kids, help discuss dangers, identify rewards of waiting, give guidelines, and support chaste lifestyles. (Contains 21…

Evidence suggests that curricular content and the educational process shape and are shaped by sociocultural factors. This article explores changing ideas concerning how schools should respond to the societal environment and points out that no educational approach is completely neutral. The author urges that school-society relations be regarded…

Outlines the 10 most significant trends to affect twenty-first century schools, including changes in work, lifestyles, technology, school demographics, international relations, the American family, locus of control in education, teacher training and recruitment, public education alternatives, and social values. The larger report predicts…

As families and institutions change, many U.S. children could fail to realize their potential to lead fulfilling adult lives. Confronted by poverty, the crack cocaine epidemic, and increased exposure to violence, children make daily choices altering their life's course. Schools are increasingly expected to resolve social problems without…

Science education should be effective as "Science for All" but the science curriculums introduced in the 1960s and 1970s were inadequate and only served a science "elite" while teaching the majority of students that science was not for them. Science must be reexamined and curriculum developers should emphasize exciting examples and everyday…