Describes an educational system composed of three phases - Childhood Education, Developmental Education, and Career Education - which the author believes would fulfill the needs of the over-strained public education system. (Author/RK)

Author examined the essential fallacies which have prompted the process of deterioration of the American university and proposed that students use their talents more productively. (Author/RK)

Second-grade children were trained on an optional shift task in order to assess the relation between the amount of overtraining and (a) the type of shift executed by Ss, and (b) the breadth of learning. (Editor)

Article presented a description of a rapidly growing kind of academic "service center", and suggestions to faculty for its use. (Editor/RK)

Imagine a wooden cube painted and cut into "unit cubes." A typical activity consists of predicting the number of unit cubes with exactly three faces painted, two faces painted, etc. This article presents extensions of this activity designed to help students develop analyzing abilities and powers to generalize. (JP)

The present studies were designed to compare whole-list reproduction (Experiment 1) and whole-list relearning (Experiment 11) for experimental and control Ss after each group had learned its respective part list. (Author)

Author reviewed the life of the architect of Summerhill and evaluated Neill's contributions to education. (RK)

The purpose of the experiment was to ascertain whether the duration of the spiral illusion could be extended by a 'learning procedure' which would distinguish a longer-term learning effect from short-term adaptive changes due to inhibition. (Author)

A theory put forward by Reginald Archambault is that moral education can be fostered through the study of other subjects - he suggested history and literature. Article examined this theory in relation to art. (Author/RK)

Article considered the merits of playgroups versus nursery schools, the needs of preschool children, and the role of parents in educating their children. (RK)

Article suggested where the teacher's role lies in an open education environment and offered an idealized, stylized description of the teaching process in the informal class situation. (Author/RK)

In this article, the author, an elementary music teacher with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, offers suggestions for developing music materials for the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Describes a study designed to determine the effects of Science: A Process Approach (SAPA) on kindergarten children's ability to conserve on six tasks. It was concluded that the rate of attainment of conservation skills is affected at least in part by the experiences made possible by SAPA. (JR)

Seventy-two educable mentally retarded 11-year-old children were divided into a low mental age (MA) group (MA 87 months) and a high MA group (MA 106 months) to compare performance on the solving of variously presented verbal arithmetic problems. (Author/MC)

An overview and analysis of the use of learning hierarchies in instruction and research, examines some current research on learning hierarchies, and considers the implications of this research for instructional psychology and for theories of cognitive development. (Author)