Instructional Approach. Curriculum integration is taking hold in a wide. variety of high school settings. In career-focused. pathways, new small high schools, career academies, and even large traditional high schools, teachers are. integrating academic and technical instruction by. focusing on career-related themes.
Major Tom is a fictional astronaut referenced in David Bowie's songs Space Oddity, Ashes to Ashes, Hallo Spaceboy (particularly in the remix by the Pet Shop Boys) and possibly Blackstar (in the music video and interpreted from the lyrics).
The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of African-American coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971. Will Patton portrays Bill Yoast, Boone's assistant coach.