Critical evaluation and biographical comments on contemporary Spanish authors Arcadio de Larrea Palacin, Leopoldo de Luis, Andres Bosch, Condesa de Campo Alange, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and Juan Rof Carballo. (DS)

Summarizes the views of two teachers who hold widely divergent views on what can be called classical examination methods - essay papers and objective exams. One of these authors is an Englishman, the other an American, but their views, while obviously conditioned by training, are shared or questioned by many colleagues regardless of national…

The purpose of this brief analysis is to delineate the character of the relationship between the pattern of ethnic stratification in the U.S. and American foreign policy described in this article as reciprocal causality." Racial disturbances directly affect the American image abroad and foreign policy has direct impact upon the American racial…

The effect of the quality of preceding essays on judgments of the quality of a subsequent essay was investigated. Inservice teachers as judges failed to produce consistently and unambiguously biased judgments. Results suggest the presence of a positive bias and the absence of a negative bias. (Author/PN)

Studies whether grades assigned to essays written by elementary school students are affected by stereotyped perceptions of their first names. American women (N=180) in undergraduate teacher education courses each graded one essay identified by a purported high, medium, or low desirability first name. (CM)

Examining current opinions of moral education, the author criticizes both the notion that moral education makes explicit the hidden values in an academic curriculum and the view that education can be value-free; concluding that schools already have the only moral educationists they need--teachers. (Author/SJL)

This material presents, in courtroom style, arguments on grade inflation. However, the authors refrain from giving a final verdict. (Author/MLF)