The author defends humanism and humanistic education against the attack leveled against it by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his Harvard address. (IRT)

Humanistic behaviorism may provide the necessary bridge between behaviorism and humanism. Perhaps the most humanistic approach to teaching is to learn how certain changes will help students and how these changes can be accomplished. (Author/MLF)

Data collected from three separate surveys indicate that, in practice, there is no real difference between humanistic and behavioristic pyschology teachers. (Author/MLF)

Secular humanism is not evil, as is charged by the Moral Majority, but is derived from early Christianity, with its concern for learning and human betterment. (Author)

Adapted from the report of the Commission on the Humanities, "The Humanities in American Life" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980). The humanities' role in education is explored. (MLF)

There exist today two groups, each seeing the world through different eyes-one cool, detached, rational; the other passionate, involved, visceral. Thus the conflict has developed between those who wish to experience the environment and those who would control it. (Author/RK)

Historically rooted curriculum designs cannot meet the challenges facing today's schools, let alone those of the future. (Author)

Lists the leaders and the organizations that have formed the political coalition that calls itself the "New Right." Summarizes their attacks on "humanism" and recommends that educators clarify terms and inform the public of the purposes of public education in a democracy. (Author/MLF)

Outlines the history and roots of affective education and points out its shortcomings in contemporary educational programs. (MD)

Discusses educational issues affected by the conservative right, including church-state separation, school prayer, censorship, creationism, moral education, and humanism. Maintains that a politically powerful religious right threatens the separation of church and state. (Author/JM)

Describes an effective workshop for humanizing education which is being applied in many other school systems. (Author/MB)

Briefly attempts to answer the preceding article by Welch, Medeiros, and Tate. Maintains that parents are rejecting the "old liberal left" and demanding an education that includes traditional Judeo-Christian values. (Author/JM)

A Roman Catholic educator ponders his failure to defend a thinking-skills program to angry parents convinced that such "New Age" philosophies would corrupt their children. Many Christian Fundamentalist authors are ultrafundamentalists attempting to assert their world view as dominant. Hated New Age practices include acupressure, YMCA…

Educating for belief or unbelief means educating for religious and spiritual literacy and examining religions from historical and philosophical perspectives. The First Amendment does not forbid teaching about religion as part of our cultural heritage. Spirituality requires no institutional affiliation. Sacred music and art should be restored to…