Describes the learning center as a concept which supports and implements learning events at all levels of training and education. (Editor)

Reforms in elementary education leading to an emphasis on attainment and on evaluation are discussed. (DT)

Proposes that an examination of the history of the development of science concepts can reveal conceptual difficulties and guide the development of instructional methods where the student is helped to actively organize information so that he is involved in formulating the concept.'' (AL)

Summarizes research evidence based on models of cognitive structure and memory and suggests some instructional implications of the generalizations offered. (AL)

Educational Leadership/Research Supplement, v3, n2, December 1969. Results of the study indicate that, "... the kind of spaced practice that schools use, that is, approximately 24 hours between similar tasks, produces greater learning than when the task is given in one continuous block. (Author)

The authors examine two prominent learning theories, Bruner's cognitive approach and Skinner's operant conditioning approach, hoping to "construct a 'mix' of the two traditions that really has something to say to educational practitioners. (Authors/LS)

Objections to the use of tangible reinforcers, such as prizes, candy, cigarettes, and money, are discussed. Treatment programs using tangible reinforcers are recommended as powerful modifers of behavior to be implemented only after less powerful means of modification have been tried. (Author)

Four experiments replicated findings that perceiving two terms in a unitary relationship facilitates their association. (Author/ML)

This article is based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Michigan. (MH)

Reviews the Delacato approach based on neurological organization, the Kephart approach stressing motor and perceptual training, specific perceptual training, and drug treatment for reading disability. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)