As a means of revitalizing the drill (still the most convenient technique of practicing skills in such subjects as grammar and punctuation), the content of exercises should be reworked to (1) motivate the student to complete the drill carefully through stressing reasons for correct English usage, (2) facilitate proper mental attitudes by making…

A quasi-static learning model was proposed to describe the interaction of factors believed to be involved in the development of reading comprehension abilities. Reading comprehension was viewed as an extension of general language learning and subject to many of the same factors and complexities as is the development of language. There are five…

Science educators and individual teachers have attempted to adapt global learning strategies to the local cultural environment. This research provides empirical evidence for one culture, the Kpa-Mende. Anthropological field methods were used to collect data to develop a base from which to ask meaningful questions about natural phenomena. The…

The students at Mendocino High School weren't fitting into the regular school program. Along came Jeffery Fine and his community school alternative. The results are encouraging for administrators and stimulating for students not satisfied with their regular secondary curriculum. (RK)

Explores ways in which books and adults can help children come to terms with matters such as sex, violence and death. (Editor)

The viewpoint is advanced that induction is a determing factor in the way knowledge is acquired and that in the acquisition of a language and the development of knowledge this process plays a crucial role. (JD)

Discusses what is meant by the word "craftsmanship" and suggests that it must be re-evaluated from the traditional concept teachers have been expounding to develop a new conceptual framework more closely allied with the industrial technical society of today. (Editor/TA)

Describes an activity using interchangeable, preset tool holders to provide a demonstration for parents or students attending a school's open house session that produces a small souvenir (an aluminum mini-chalice) for them. A procedure sheet for the school's individual lathe and specification diagrams for making the cup are provided. (TA)

Describes the increasingly global nature of education in terms of the mobility of students, workers, and teachers. Innovations in the learning process, diversification of studies, new experiential opportunities, and demands of development have generated a mobility which affects all individuals involved in education and continuous training.…

A program was described whose essential aim was to see things at once both more acutely (structure) and more broadly (context), to develop accurate and alternative means for communicating one's particular visual awareness, and in so doing discover processes involved, making them part of one's consciousness and applying them to "daily" situations,…

Fleets of folded flying machines foster flight fundamentals. (Editor)

Two issues central to the production of cognitive conflict in the computer environment are discussed. The first one focuses on the use of simulations versus real-world experiences, and the second is directed at the potential for incidental and spontaneous learning versus controlled learning with the computer. (CT)

Argues the importance of teaching children to "disturb the universe"--take stands on important issues. Decries the world of the binary computer where all questions must be answered yes/no or either/or. (FL)

A teacher describes his experiences in attempting to instruct middle school students to understand logic. (RK)

Demonstrates that preexposure to uncorrelated presentations of noises and shocks when rats are not permitted to respond interferes with the acquisition of both conditioned emotional response and signaled punishment suppression. (Author/RK)