The nature of science encompasses the entire world and within that realm, patterns of life can be observed, interpreted, and organized into a sensible arrangement of understanding. By discovering, through an intricate process, how shapes and images form into a complete design or sequence, students related similar scientific patterns to their own…

Author discussed the importance of language, its many uses and how to properly evaluate its daily function. (Editor/RK)

The present experiment was performed in order to investigate learning efficiency within four different ethnic groups: black, white, Chinese-American, and Spanish-American. In all groups, sampling was confined to children from low-socioeconomic-status communities. (Author)

Suggests how the "things of learning" can be employed to promote learning by first examining learning as it occurs in education, focusing on categories of learning outcomes; and then deriving some guidelines about the use of hardware technology as an aid to instruction. (JM)

Considered the need for involving teachers in the long range benefits of developing musicality in children. (Author/RK)

To explore relationships between success in school and infectious childhood disease, 25 children in regular primary grades who had survived laboratory confirmed acute bacterial meningitis prior to 4 years of age without observable sequelae were matched with 25 non-meningitic controls and subjected to intensive multidisciplinary examinations.…

Author states that subjecting all English teachers to a flattening, homogenizing planning methodology, merely sets up restricted channels for thinking, trivializing the work of able teachers and sanctifying the ineptitude of weak ones. Routinized response to formula drives out real thinking, real planning. (Author)

A report on a study to determine the effectiveness of multimedia laboratory instruction as compared to the conventional lecture/demonstration technique when teaching the repair and servicing of carburetors to tenth-grade students. (Author)

Describes several procedures for involving students in language learning. (MM)

The objective of the investigation reported here was to determine if selected teacher stimulus variation skills affected student learning from lecture. (Author)

Author warns that in order for children to develop intellectually educators must recognize the need for prevention of extended deviations in social, physical, emotional and/or mental areas. Early childhood seemed to be the most promising time for effecting desired changes in intellectual growth patterns. (Author/RK)

Author reviews David Nyberg's book, Tough and Tender Learning, which he calls a gentle book that stresses sensitive interaction among humans. (RK)

Article discusses several fundamental considerations that undergird the rationale for adult education. (Author/RK)