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The article underlines the development of a curriculum in education. In the United States, high schools have been entrusted with the job of molding young citizens for their future. The Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 highlights the responsibility of public education to enhance the academic, career and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students. In business education, it is essential that a curriculum on this concern should be viable in preparing students for the twenty-first century.

In this article the author discusses the decision of the governing council of the University of Toronto to introduce the university's flat fee policy in Toronto, Ontario. She mentions that the policy would require students to pay for five courses eventhough they only take three or four courses. She points out that the university's governing council has made such decision despite the legal action of students, faculty, and alumni against the university's administration.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in June, 2013 issue including "Projecting Doubt" by Bill Blum, "Keep Calm and Lawyer On", and "The Fight Over Guns" by Adam Winkler.

The article reports on the separate lawsuits filed by students of Kaplan University and Virginia College in Birmingham, Alabama due to charges of admitting students to educational programs which are not accredited by the state.

The author reflects on the introduction of two regulatory requirements in education in New Zealand. He primarily highlights the creation of two regulations, specifically the revised New Zealand Curriculum for teaching and learning, and the National Standards for literacy and numeracy. He further tackles the philosophical tension between these two regulatory requirements, focusing on its opposing approaches, objectives and structure.

The article examines the efforts to advance music tuition across schools in Great Britain in 2008. Music is included in the teachings of expressive arts under the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland. Music is taught as part of creation development, one of the areas of learning in the Foundation Phase Curriculum in Wales. Music tuition is a statutory requirement for every school pupil from Foundation to Key Stage 3, within the subject of arts education in Northern Ireland.

The article discusses the U.S. House of Representatives consideration of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2007, H. R. 3036. The article discusses the legislation, which would authorize spending for over five years to help states train teachers in environmental education, create environmental education curricula, and support outdoor environmental education programs.

The article reports on the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program discussion in the U.S. Congress. It mentions that STEM received support after the National Academy of Sciences reports the threat of STEM education in U.S. economy. For that reason, Congress passed the America COMPETES Act, an act dedicated to develop federal STEM program, in 2007 and appropriated funds its programs. Unfortunately, the fund was eliminated in the omnibus spending bill of President George Bush.

The article focuses on the approval of a mathematics curricula requirement by the State Board of Education in California. All students will take the course Algebra 1 by the eighth grade, according to a proposal by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Comments from the governor and from Jack O'Connell, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, are also included.