This chapter presents the shift in perspectives about schooling embodied in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) Standards-based reform movement, describes the impact of these shifts on the types of questions that need to be answered, and defines the ways in which scholarly evidence needs to be developed. Issues of concern…

This document presents the curriculum of the University School at the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma), an early childhood and elementary school for academically gifted students. The curriculum is based on enaction theory, which emphasizes active, interdisciplinary learning involving three steps: (1) concept introduction through active and…

Pupils need to experience a quality literature and reading program. By following tenets concerning the principles of learning developed by educational psychology, teachers can provide more adequately for students' individual differences such as the fast, average, and slower readers in the classroom setting. Teachers need to study each pupil and…

This document, one of a series of reports, focuses on the adoption of principles of quality management, originally developed by W. Edwards Deming, and the Baldrige Criteria for use in education. These processes and tools for systemic organizational management, when comprehensively applied, produce performance excellence and continuous improvement.…

The major change from an industrial to an information-based society has far-reaching implications for the profession of arms. This shift challenges many assumptions about soldier development and requires an aggressive response to retain the U.S. Army's edge despite an expanding mission and a shrinking budget. This article explores some of the…

This conference paper discusses the use of cooperative learning (CL) in second language (L2) instruction. After two brief definitions of CL, key areas discussed in the paper are: a) how CL relates to theories of L2 acquisition, b) CL principles, and c) some CL techniques and lesson plan considerations when using CL in L2 instruction. An appendix…

Article considered thirty principles of college and university administration which could be applied in the day-to-day operation of an institution. (Author/RK)

Described some principles underlying a concept which involves a community college without walls - a Community Renewal College. (Author/RK)

Article presented an outline in general terms of the kind of institutional framework and attitudes necessary to stimulate changes in instruction. (Editor/RK)

In the period 1917 to 1934, from being a country where almost ninety percent of the population consisted of illiterate peasants, the Soviet Union was transformed into an emerging industrialized society, where almost ninety percent had achieved literacy. The massive campaign which achieved this is described in this article. (Author/CB)

This paper is a case study of one portion of China's pre-1949 educational experience-Peking University (Peita) during the Chancellorship of Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei (1917-1923), with special emphasis on the May Fourth Period. (Author)

Presents some educational principles, which are intended to ensure conditions indispensable for the all-round development of each individual, and suggests those principles as a basis for modernizing the present educational system and adult education. (Author/RK)

This paper was the keynote address at the International Conference on Teaching and Learning English" held at the University of York, July 1971. (Editor)

Founder of a "deschooled" school, Mrs. Davis sees no future for colleges unless they are dismantled and a new form of learning permitted to exist. (Editor)