To help the reader understand the scope and diversity of the Wisconsin R & D Center's research effort in mathematics, four perspectives are presented: (1) the Center's approach to research, development, and practice; (2) the origins of the current research effort; (3) a description of current research; and (4) a projection for future research. (JP)

Study suggests that an individual's preferred ways of perceiving and thinking reflect an integral aspect of his personality, and that a full knowledge of the one is essential to a full understanding of the other. (Author)

Discusses the First School, a primary school with an age of either five to eight or five to nine in which student and teacher share in a learning partnership that centres on the child. (Author/RK)

Article discusses the social institutions and conditions responsible for shaping behavior and explains why punitive measures have been ineffective as rehabilitation directives. (Author)

Survey indicates it is imperative that cultural differences are accounted for when assessing mental retardation, and the necessity for a proper evaluation of the IQ. (RK)

Adapted from Chapter 7 of Basic Report for Targeted Communications: Teaching a Standard English to Speakers of Other Dialects;'' report supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Aimed at teaching kids how to recognize metaphors. (Author)

The need for educational innovation and the potential in new educational technology in higher education are being recognized, although resistance to reevaluating old assumptions is strong. The focus of education should be on the student, and every means for enriching his learning process should be utilized. (JS)

Author, who is director of the Alternative Schools Project in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, describes how persons live together in the place called school." (Author/SP)

A study of conservation of length concepts covering the symmetric, asymmetric, reflexive, nonreflexive, and transitive relations. Their order of development was traced during the course of a 15-lesson sequence of related instruction. (MM)