Hypothesizes that overloading the working memory may leave no space for thought and organization such that faulty (or even no) learning takes place. Provides examples of this hypothesis and possible remedies. These remedies focus on design of laboratory manuals and equipment and on curriculum content order. (JN)

Factors that affect the development and selection of social skills training programs with severely handicapped students are reviewed. Training procedures used with this group are also discussed. The author argues that efforts to develop acceptable social behavior in these students must systematically produce maintenance and generalization of…

Describes a small scale study of children's experiences with books read aloud in nursery schools. Explores what young children learn from hearing books and stories read aloud, and shows how data from this study and a larger scale study conducted simultaneously can illuminiate thinking about early literacy. (HTH)

To bring about educational change, parents and citizens must become politically active in the school system. Parents can help their children during times of educational change by making learning fun, rewarding learning, and teaching critical thinking skills. (DF)

Relates some of the observations made of a kindergarten classroom over a two-year period in which teachers simulated as many conditions as possible with respect to a natural "learning-how-to-write" situation. (HOD)

Notes that while gifted students have characteristics that suggest superior reading ability, not all of them become capable readers. Proposes a teaching program that is different in content, method, and pacing to help these children reach their potential. (FL)

Higher education should serve the long-term intellectual needs of the student. The only way to measure real learning is by what it does to the individual student's intellectual growth. A three-step approach to internalize, integrate, and subjectify knowledge is discussed. (MLW)

Tests the validity of hypotheses concerning the effects of films on opinion formation. Reports on experiments using two third-grade classes and a conservation film produced for primary-school-age children. (Author/RK)

Gives some account of the outcomes of the Schools Council project Writing across the Curriculum 11-16, but is primarily concerned with theoretical problems of the relationships between teaching, research and development in language. (Editor/RK)

Examines whether black children learn a categorized list in the same way as they learn an uncategorized list and white children learn each list by a different strategy. Sixty fourth grade children, randomly selected by race and class group from a pool of 123 children, approximately one-third of whom were lower class white, lower class black, and…

A hidden curriculum consists of those learning states of a setting that are either unintended or intended but not openly acknowledged to the learners in the setting unless the learners are aware of them. Consciousness-raising may be the best weapon of individuals who are subject to hidden curricula. (Author/MLF)

Discussion about (1) introducing young children to global concepts, (2) carefully choosing instructional materials to further global concepts, and (3) how a child's viewpoint can affect his perception of global concepts. (ND)