Ordinary students (n=40) are participating in a Soviet experiment wherein they are taught by well-known scientists and specialists in a math-intensive course comparable to that taught at the Kiev University. (JC)

Performance of 237 students in 10 inner-city 8th grade math classes was assessed under 5 different sets of instructional conditions. Results indicated playing an instructional mathematics game over a two-year period and working with Instructional Math Play (IMP) kits for 2 weeks improved math ability better than any other combination. (JC)

Contrasts the unconventional educational philosophies implemented by Joseph Brewer at Olivet College (MI), John Andrews Rice at Black Mountain College (NC), and Stringfellow Barr at St. John's College (MD). Discusses the educators' personal characteristics, educational methods, and lasting influences. Recounts firsthand experiences as a student at…

This study, describing the Free Gymnasium in Denmark complied by a committee of pupils and teachers, sets forth their experiences in working to innovate within the traditional education system. (JH)

Describes Prescott College in Arizona where students undergo rigorous outdoor exercise in addition to challenging academic experiences. (HS)

Study habits are of great importance in new 3-year medical curricula. (HS)

A program designed to test alternate schemes for providing legal education by changing content and methodology of courses. (HS)

Faced with the problems of scheduling and low personnel, the authors detail how they made use of a January intersession to fill the need for black history, what materials they used, and how the course was structured. (Author/JB)

Rochdale College, Toronto, Canada, the most ambitious, student-operated "free university in North America, is the antithesis of the conventional college. Its graffiti, drugs, sounds, smells and style shatter the usual academic yardsticks. But one summer of 1969 has brought some law and order to the college, now in its second year of…

This article is intended to supplement a published research report (Gersten, Baker, Smith-Johnson, Dimino, & Peterson, in press) on an instructional intervention study by discussing some of the behind-the-scenes issues that typically do not appear in a published research report. In particular, I discuss how use of design experiments helped shape…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the hypothesis that it is fruitful to study new areas within research for sustainability, through experimental education courses, that are based on international and multilateral (transcultural) learning processes. Design/methodology/approach: This way of introducing education into open research…

Course designs for Basic English Writing classes vary from one course to another. The objective of this study was to investigate the semantic misinterpretation of English words found in the English compositions written by native-Chinese-speaking undergraduate students and to overcome if such a barrier occurred in the process of writing. First,…