Contexts in which mentally retarded children learn may be counter-productive in that they reinforce excessively dependent learning strategies. Research on nonhandicapped children suggests that contexts which allow children to initiate as well as respond promote independent learning, suggesting ways to structure learning opportunities for mildly…

This report examines the problem of the pervasiveness of politics in today's higher education, particularly in the humanities, and argues the need for college and university campuses to return to seeking the truth and telling it rather than straying into the position that the aim of education is for students to become politically transformed. Too…