Metro High, St. Louis, is described in pictures and words. The school, started in 1972, is a small, experimental school, which encourages self instruction, community involvement, and the use of real situations as learning experiences. The Zoology class, for instance, visits the zoo to study the animals. (SM)

The need is for a massive coordinated effort to continuously educate parents, teachers, and the adult citizenry on the importance of how to positively perceive and act toward children. (Author)

Describes a method for helping children with learning disorders to improve their academic performance. (RK)

As of the 1973 semester, 10 percent scheduled school time will be free'', i.e., unstructured in the sense that it need not be devoted to one particular discipline but may instead be used for interdisciplinary study or field trips. (DD)

A creative course offered to adults in evening sessions successfully combined poetry, art, dance, film, and music in developing insights into human values, self-awareness, and interrelationships. (JB)

The classroom teacher, regardless of the teaching area, can utilize debate as a device to help the student achieve objectives such as critical thinking, problem solving, the enhancing of self-concept and the art of communicating. (Author/CB)

Suggests that in light of the trend towards becoming a service-dominated economy, learning should be self-directed, giving students and their community a role in the school. (JF)

Suggests that the educational system be changed so that the task of learning becomes a common one. The problem, the author observes, is to reorganize the social structure of the school so that teachers and students can belong to the same group, with an identity of interest, even if they have different roles within its framework. (JF)

The office model, a plan to emulate actual office practices, is an effective method of bridging the gap between learning the skills in office education and applying them to the world of work. (NQ)

The modified text of a speech given at McGill University, Montreal, May, 1972, this paper emphasizes that education is for all of life and that a learning system does exist that includes but goes far beyond the bounds of a school system, as well as a learning force coterminous with the number of active learners in society. (Author/JB)

A high school teacher describes the learning that occurred when she and a group of bright students went on a 10-day snake hunting trip to the South Carolina swamps. (SP)

Twelve women in an adult creative writing class offered by Spokane, Washington, Community College offer a collective story about the college and their experience in returning to the classroom. (DS)

Piagetian principles are illustrated with examples from the preschool classroom; authors conclude that teachers should stand back awhile and watch the children do their own learning.'' (Author/SP)

In a situation where some participants in an organization are there to learn often the educational goals come last. In the meat cutting trade the apprentice learns slowly and with little system of instruction, with variables such as location and size of market determining the effectiveness of instruction. (JB)