Writing teachers notice how students who succeed with their written projects often do so after they have moved to a kind of anger either with themselves or the project, with external stimuli, or with a general sense of injustice. They are stimulated by the emotion to creative problem solving, and as an effect, they may succeed at eliminating the…

A study investigated students' perceptions about their interactions while using a Literacy Play Center geared toward social studies with a "time machine" theme. Subjects, 19 fifth-grade students in a suburban elementary school in central New Jersey, were interviewed about their experience and video taped while interacting in the play…

In this study, 24 9th-grade students investigated several issues related to modern Israeli society. In their investigation, students were engaged in activities such as data search, data sorting, making inquiries, project writing, and construction of a new computerized database related to the subjects of their investigations. Students were…

Discusses the response of children to the new elementary science curricula. Claims that while we have been busy devising experiments that enable children to discover concepts, we may have forgotten about children and why they are interested in learning. (JR)

Discusses a continuing education program designed for employed scientists and engineers by the Applied Physics Laboratory Evening College Center of the Johns Hopkins University. Included are questionnaire results obtained from students and nine-year statistics for program growth. (CC)

Author writes of young children in nursery school and the changes in their behavior during the school year. (Editor)

Discusses a science fiction (SF) course conducted twice at Heidelberg College with lists of readings and supplementary aids presented. Indicates that the SF offerings are generally classified into three types and have the value of stimulating students' interests in science and its impact on civilization. (CC)

Article stresses the need of values clarification to give pupils experience in valuing to enable them to answer the questions that really concern them. (Author/ML)

Article describes how our system does not develop a social responsibility and sense of belonging among students. (MM)

Article outlines method for having students evaluate their fellow students' compositions without knowing the authors' names. Object is to teach them to write for their peers but also to analyze work slightly better and slightly worse than their own. (PD)

The implementation of a three-year nongraded electives program in high school English and social studies achieved particular success in providing: a close correlation between English and social studies; incentive produced by age differential within classrooms; and a phase system" which allowed students to select their own ability levels. (Authors)

Explains how a guided independent reading program became popular with junior high school students. (SW)

Explains how elementary, high school, and college students communicated silently via the chalkboard. (SW)

Studies comparing the reading, mathematics, and language arts achievement of retained students with the achievement of promoted students are analyzed, using meta-analysis. Overall, research indicates that retained students fall behind the first year of retention and spend the rest of their academic careers in a vain attempt to catch up. (PP)