Describes the process several California high schools followed in converting traditional English programs to Selective English" ones. (SW)

Deplores requirement of traditional book reports and encourages spontaneous student reactions to books read as a preferable alternative. (SW)

Article Lists ten principles for effective teaching of teacher education. (IR)

Lists teacher-suggested projects related to Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois" and to Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun." (SW)

The relative effectiveness of sentence and conjunction contexts in reducing negative transfer and facilitating learning is empirically investigated. (Author)

Reports a 15-day study of contemporary urban problems. (RD)

To test a deduction from Carroll's Model of School Learning (i.e., increasing a learner's perserverance will not alter degree of learning or learning rate), time needed to learn a task under an encouragement condition designed to increase perserverance was compared to learning time under a discouragement condition. As predicted, no significant…

Describes a study designed to determine preferences for various academic incentives among university education majors in order to create a database of the incentives most likely to be successful. Results indicate that the two most popular incentives were released from the final exam and positive comments from the instructor. (EAO)

Text from a speech delivered by the past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development declares that a liberating education offers students abundant knowledge, that content by itself does not liberate individuals, and that individuals employ knowledge in their own liberation. (MLF)

Untrained normal achievers attributed failure to adoption of specific task strategies, while untrained learning disabled boys attributed failure to task difficulty. Characteristics of learned helplessness were apparent in the impaired performance of the learning-disabled boys. Normal achievers appeared to have developed active and independent…

Data from the 1976 NAEP Science Assessment were used to explore sex differences in science learning and its determinants with controls for ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. No sex difference in science learning was found, but a sex-specific trend in science motivation was detected. (Author/GK)