A French-English glossary of 205 terms referring to personnel in the hotel business. (AMH)

Six brief essays discuss English/French translation with regard to alcohol breath tests, magnetic tapes, nautical terminology, electrical terminology, and titles of hotel staff. (AM)

Investigates how the computer can facilitate learning for elementary and middle school students and what aspects of the curriculum can be handled effectively by computers. (Author/RK)

In reaction to the present uproar over textbook usage and content this research investigates what a textbook is, what it should and should not do, where it came from and why, and finally what its future will be. (Author/RK)

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An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…

Maintaining one's artistic self while teaching should be a principal goal of art education. The ability to harmonize one's creative powers in teaching and art making should be the foremost competence of each art teacher. (Author)

In this response to Skinner's criticism of a previously written article, Herrnstein notes that phylogenic behavior as used by Skinner refers to a third kind of behavior. Herrnstein suggests that this is neither a necessary nor a desirable addition to behavioristic analysis. (Author/AM)

Discusses four definitions of "grammar" and suggests that ignorance of any of the four harms research and teaching. (DD)

Ten basic mathematical skill areas are identified in order to enable educators to provide more effective leadership and direction in implementing and evaluating basic mathematics programs. (JT)

Notes that, for the foreseeable future, the de jure-de facto distinction in school segregation will be used to allow and legitimize segregation in the nation's schools. The court's decision in the Detroit, Pasadena, and Austin school desegregation cases will make this clear. (Author/AM)

Defines aggression, discusses two theories regarding aggression in the human being, and the effects of punishment, role modeling, and violence on aggressive behavior. (RK)

Two responses to the Federal definition of learning disability in the proposed regulations for Public Law 94-142 are presented. (CL)

Semantically traced, over time, terms used to represent old people, aging, and effects of aging. Major themes found included differences between terms used for old men and old women; ambiguity of terms; older people subjected to more pejoratives than in past; and terms characterizing the old being focused on negative and debilitative effects of…

Reports on a survey that asked 500 students what the word "literature" meant to them. Concludes that the variety of answers indicate that English teachers need to be clearer about what they believe literature is and that only then can they clarify the objectives of a literary education. (JAD)