Describes student responses to quarterly composition tests. (SW)

Includes measures of literary discrimination, objective questions, verifiable performance measures, and content analysis." (Author/RD)

There is a shift in mood in America from concern for achievement to concern for equality, from emphasis on the unusually gifted to emphasis on the unusually handicapped. (Editor)

Rability of acquiring good English" as using it to forge the very chains he wrote the play to break." (Author/RD)

Reports how the magazine Chemistry" was used with a college chemistry course for non-science majors. Indicates that good gain in knowledge and attitudes were obtained. (DS)

A paper presented at convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969) and a shortened version of the final chapter of With Respect to Readers." (Author/RD)

Educators in Vermont are making a determined effort to relate the education of their students to their needs and desires. Courses in photography, special programs, and relaxed restrictions are some of the techniques employed to achieve this goal. (CK)

Discusses the differences in origin and content to the stories of Aesop and the brothers Grimm. (HOD)

The Department of Pediatrics at the Framingham Union Hospital, in conjunction with the Boston University Department of Pediatrics, requires pediatric residents to participate in a school health experience. Two such activities and their effects on children are described. (CJ)

Teachers often ask questions to stimulate students' thinking, open up dialog, draw out responses, and keep a discussion flowing. However, questioning techniques can encourage student passivity and dependency. Alternatives to questioning are described. (CJ)