Author believes that most of our schools' current drug programs are ineffective because they deal with the facts (pharmacology and toxology) of drug abuse rather than with the values which surround a person's decision to use or to avoid drugs. (Editor)

This article begins with a section that describes cooperative learning and explains eight cooperative learning principles. The second section discusses the interface between cooperative learning and language pedagogy. Next is a section about the why and how of reading aloud by teachers. The heart of the article resides in the last and longest…