Accountability in elementary social studies should relate to our furnishing the necessary support materials for pupil investigation, and providing meaningful social studies topics from which students can make selections. (Author)

Computer Assisted Instruction appears to help Title 1 pupils in 32 Chicago schools make greater progress, and to enjoy the experience. (Editor)

A mountain park program for sixth-graders from Washington, D. C., is not only instructive but seems to kindle renewed zest for learning. (Editor)

Described Experience-based Career Education, a pilot project sponsored by the National Institute of Education which was started for secondary school students to provide them with direct learning experience in real occupational settings. (Author/RK)

A study of entering students at the Universityof Birmingham (England) afforded an opportunity to explore the learning situations experienced by those students in the sixth form. Interest in the investigation stemmed from the disorientation students felt during the change from one type of learning situation in secondary school to another type in…

The purpose of this paper is to describe the construction of a sequence of planned experiences for teaching the process of making moral judgments and for testing the effectiveness of the sequence. (Author)

Describes an experiment in which the learning contract method was used in a philosophical ethics course and assesses the learning contract method as compared to the discussion method. (Author/PG)

This paper is concerned with a low cost alternative for providing computer experience to secondary school students. The brief discussion covers the programmable calculator and its relevance for teaching the concepts and the rudiments of computer programming and for computer problem solving. A list of twenty-five programming activities related to…

This article suggested an alternative educational institution - the Learning Foundation - as a model for reorganizing the delivery of educational services in order to provide learning opportunities for all ages and levels of experience at the point of the local neighborhood but supported by the services of central resources units. (Editor/RK)

Adult higher education programs and curricula are designed to serve the convenience of institutions rather than the special needs of adult students. (Author/KE)

This cooking curriculum, issued by the Washington District Early Childhood Council, details specific ways in which language arts, math, science, and social studies may be taught through cooking specific recipes. Cooking activities and recipes are presented for the fall, winter, and spring months, and guidelines are provided for preparing…

Selected learning modes preferred by students at the Department of Business at Tuskegee Institute were investigated. Separate questionnaires were designed for students and faculty, each of which contained four general modal categories (environmental, pictoral, symbolic, and verbal) and subcategories. The student questionnaire allowed students to…