Cautions against rush to import British informal-style classrooms asserting that open education can't be brought about by mandate, questionable motivations, or by a quick, band-aid approach. More long-range planning and better evaluation methods are urged. (ST)

A study which reflects how a class of disadvantaged, inner city high school students with poor reading ability achieved high quality academic learning in a world geography class through various reading media is discussed and summarized. (SM)

Three sample lessons for elementary grades are designed to help make children aware that one of the major features of modern society is its increasing interdependence. Each lesson focuses upon the concept of systems and subsystems in society. (SM)

Patterns in an array of numerals are analyzed; suggestions are given for guided discovery activities leading to a discussion of the properties of identity, closure, commutativity, inverses, and associativity. (DT)

The main concern of this article is to describe some of the aspects or facets of discovery learning situations exemplified by the models and found in curriculum development projects. (Author)

Music teachers can make learning about music more rewarding and effective by improving the setting for conceptual development. The choral laboratory is one important step in music education and a positive method for learning music concepts. (RK)

Inquiry-discovery learning of processes involved in determining transportation patterns form the core of this teaching model. Promotes understanding of human behavior and geographic change and is sufficiently general for use at several teaching levels. (Author/JB)

Author reviews excerpts from her book of the early 1940's, My Country School Diary, from a modern perspective, and finds the situation today essentially the same; teacher and student must start from where they are'' and develop from that point. (SP)

The creative-aesthetic approach to educational stimulation accelerates the development of question-asking skills, of the 5-year olds tested, more than the traditional kindergarten approach. (Author/MF)