Curriculum Column

Two educational publishers recently unveiled products designed to conform to national efforts to reform science and mathematics education.

The Glencoe division of the MacMillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company announced last month at the annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association that it will publish a new series of middle-school science books that are compatible with the principles of the association's Scope, Sequence, and Coordination of Secondary-School Science Project.

The series, called Science Interactions, teaches concepts--such as "light and color'' and "force and pressure''--as related ideas, rather than as discrete...