Most communities include people who can serve as important resources for curriculum activities. Offers a number of useful suggestions for using human resources from the community in the school. (Editor/RK)

Plan carefully. Then count on activity cards to help develop creative and independent thinking as well as building skills. (Editor)

An investigation was made into the effects of observers' previous experience with the experimental task on acquisition and subsequent performance of modeled task behavior. Findings support Bandura's assertion that task familiarity may enhance attentiveness to the model. (Author/SB)

This report presents a data-collection plan for addressing these questions: (1) What were the New American Schools (NAS) like before they implemented their restructuring design efforts? (2) How have these evolved over time? (3) Are the critical components of the NAS designs being implemented across a wide array of schools? (4) Do the NAS designs…

This annotated bibliography lists books and articles that have direct application to managing the human side of knowledge acquisition, transfer, and application. What is meant by the human dimension of knowledge is how motivation and learning affect the acquisition and transfer of knowledge and how group dynamics mediate the role of knowledge in…

A multidisciplinary approach to history provided by the use of poetry, and specifically epic poetry, portrays the story of man and offers a viable affective learning experience. (Author/KM)

In launching the commission on Language Difficulties, helps teachers to realize in practical terms the difficulties of becoming learners by encouraging the members of the commission to consider what is involved in a particular learning situation. (RB)

Author describes the procedure used for designing a place out-of-doors where opportunities for learning abound. (Author/CB)

Discussed are the essential ingredients for building an effective internship program: highly motivated and competent faculty, commitment to purposes, well-structured academic input, assignments, credit, communication, funding. (JB)

Presidential Address, NCTE Convention, Minneapolis, November 23, 1972. (MM)

Author approves of the first two-thirds of the Russell Reports recommendations but finds the final third on future development inadequate. (RK)

In the middle years of schooling, size, measurement, shape and form build up a child's mathematical and visual concepts. A restless drive to create, to see what happens in making something, can provide the driving force in crafts. (Editor)

A plan whereby high school students can have the experience of a variety of courses of study, cutting across the usual academic boundaries. (Editor)

A comparison of three methods used in teaching science with a discussion of the meaning of these terms and the psychological assumptions which are used to justify them. (DF)