In response to S. A. Cohen's paper on research problems in learning disabilities the author agrees on the need for better definitions and more experimental studies (rather than ex post facto correlational studies) but suggests that subgroups within the broad classification of learning disabilities be identified for research and instructional…

Discusses recent trends in buying microcomputers for the home and hobbyists. Defines terms such as RAM, ROM, bits, bytes, BASIC, 4k and 8k. (CS)

This essay represents an attempt to provide a realistic framework through which the curriculum planner might develop a personal definition of curriculum. (Author)

Deals with the pervasive change which has occurred in recent decades in the conception of so-called neurosis and with the resulting modifications in corrective or "therapeutic" measures. (Author/RK)

Words presented with regular acoustic onsets are not "perceptually" regular. The requirements for perceived regularity were investigated, and the "perceptual center" (P-center) of a word was defined as its psychological moment of occurrence. (Editor)

Discusses the importance of humane education (i.e., the teaching of the principles of justice, goodwill, and respect for all living creatures) and offers suggestions for integrating humane education in the elementary school curriculum. (JG)

Standards and principles recommended for formal adoption as the Association of School Business Officials'"official" policy on the subject. (Author/MLF)

Looks critically at the British concept of community education and at the values and assumptions which appear to underlie it, and calls for greater consideration of the value judgments and the political implications involved, before scarce resources are diverted from adult to community education. (Editor/TA)

Examines inclusive views of giftedness. It maintains that productivity requirements should be left out of definitions of giftedness since such requirements assume a gifted child has the expressive skills to support insights and that products can be accurately evaluated. Most important, the insistence on productivity ignores children with potential…

A survey of 26 Rorschach experts and 19 students of Rorschach use was conducted to help students using the Exner Comprehensive System determine whether to code movement for nouns with definitions that include movement. Experts and students did not reach agreement, but a literature review suggests such nouns should often be coded as movement. (SLD)

The language of thinking embraces the many ways we describe human mental states and processes. The vocabulary of thinking can be roughly divided into terms marking an epistemic stance, terms describing an intellectual process, and terms describing an intellectual product. Reasoning is not the only important cognitive process. Thinking-rich…

Unpacks some of the underlying assumptions of the modes of knowing that inform "ludic" and "Red" feminist pedagogies and how the pedagogy of critique is a pedagogy of emancipation, whereas the pedagogy of desire, at its most radical moment, is simply a pedagogy of liberation, specifically individual libidinal liberation. (TB)

Discusses definitions of giftedness, including the use of talent as a more effective term for giftedness. Argues that the concept of giftedness is closely linked to general intelligence and is of limited usefulness in understanding and educating youth with special abilities, while talents represent special aptitudes that can be individually…

Competence has varied meanings in everyday, academic, and vocational contexts. The normative positions of competency-based training and cognitive psychology have gone through various cycles. Reconciliation of differences depends on acknowledgment of the normative nature of competence and recognition of the context for advocacy of a particular…