Purpose: This essay offers a perspective for practitioners and decision-makers to look beyond short-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and consider longer-term consequences that it may have on schools. Design/methodology/approach: In this essay, I discuss some general observations about education during the pandemic and then provide a…

In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for granted, with schools proving slower to change their…

Reprints an article originally published in 1953. Suggests that high standards of accomplishment in school will require the development of a definite homework program for students. Argues that homework requires students to develop time management skills, tends to bring school into the home, develops the idea that school is a full-time job, and…

Briefly presents expert opinion on the pros and cons of allowing parents to educate their children at home. (JMB)

Highlights five unsupported but popular notions about homework and offers five reality-based perspectives on the subject. It explains that homework is not the panacea to schools' problems, that it does not foster discipline and personal responsibility, and that parents do not always want their children to receive homework, particularly in the…

The computer's educational attributes are best displayed in the area of cognitive development. Computers can be used as mediums for learning or agents of learning. Obstacles to the expansion and accreditation of home-based computer educational experiences are explored and solutions proposed.(IAH)

Essays are presented in which the authors offer four entirely separate perspectives on the issue of correspondence study's image. The authors examine the defensiveness of some of correspondence study's practitioners, the role of scholarship in correspondence study's image, the lack of such scholarship in the United States, and university-level…

Discusses the issue of timed tests. Includes a take-home page for families on the topic of speed or timed tests. (KHR)

This examination of instructional development from a futurist's perspective focuses on three questions: (1) What are the probable future developments in educational technology that will affect instructional development?; (2) What are the probable future developments in learning and cognition that will affect instructional development?; and (3)…

The central argument of this paper is that the contemporary teacher's task is to bring students into the most fertile intellectual and moral companionship that can be provided. To begin this process, Plato's "Apology" should be introduced to students as early as junior high school. To illustrate this procedure, the educational background…

Suggests that correspondence education can be used to benefit students in regular schools by enriching curriculum, accelerating gifted pupils, making up work that has been failed or missed, resolving schedule conflicts, introducing adult education, individualizing learning programs, and providing adult evening programs. Outlines responsibilities…

The New Zealand Correspondence School is a large, state-funded, national institution teaching at preschool and elementary-secondary school levels. Like the regular education system, it long has been tightly controlled, with a national syllabus, national grading and examinations, and national guidelines for interpretation of the syllabus. The…

Chemistry sets, often a child's first contact with chemistry, are becoming less attractive to manufacturers as the market for these items decreases. There is a tendency for recently manufactured chemistry sets to be less adequate than those selling in the same price range in past years. Manuals vary in quality among manufacturers. (RE)

Argues that the most readily available source of input for the independent-minded second language learner comes in the form of radio broadcasts. An approach to the independent study of French, with the use of broadcast radio, emphasizing frequent input, working at home, self-monitoring and immediate feedback, and attention to detail is described.…

This overview of distance education in the present and future begins by defining the concept of home study and briefly tracing its history from the 19th century to the present. Several distance education institutions around the world are mentioned, including Great Britain's Open University. In the United States, the work of the…