Intercollegiate forensics has been shown to provide extensive added value to its participants regardless of whether the student stresses debate, individual events, or both. Of the individual event genres, only the limited preparation events have not been distinguished by their content goals. Most textbooks consider impromptu and extemporaneous…

A topic of much national concern is the mental health of youth. Adolescents often enter psychiatric treatment with poor school performance, having attended numerous schools, and have very negative attitudes toward the school environment. In order to facilitate more effective psychiatric functioning, this study sought to learn more about two groups…

This hermeneutic, or interpretive, inquiry questions the historical cultural roots of the assumption that giftedness is defined in terms of essential properties that identify a select few children. It proposes, instead, a gifted way of life that is constituted by possibilities and is open to all persons. The hermeneutic paradigm of textual…

Student retention has been a divisive educational question since the turn of the century. And although early educators found that retention was not particularly effective, they continued using it because their options were limited. Today, educators have many options to retention. Using the database from Project STAR, a study explored the common…

Article looked at a recent controversial report, "Task Force '74/The Adolescent, Other Citizens, and Their High Schools", on the reform of secondary education. (Editor/RK)

Students learned to use mathematics to understand the importance of measurement, graphing and a simplified version of conic section and parabola. Through the development of the concept of line from which curve forms were created art and mathematics became intertwined while students accomplished far greater flexibility and mastery of an artistic…

A program that combined the use of newspaper articles with strategies designed to help children identify values and select from among them was described. (Author/RK)

Author suggested that educators provide perspectives by which our students may not only see the events, ideas, and controversies of our time, but also see around and through them as well. (Author/RK)

In the first of a series of feature articles, the author suggested some of the problems involved in constructing a "core curriculum" for students of all abilities. (Editor/RK)

In a special introduction to his new anthology of children's writing, the author looked at the political aspects of classroom work. (Editor/RK)

Author described his own strategy for helping people learn to compose music, which he called the improvisational approach. (Author/RK)

An instructional strategy which combined what is good in programmed learning with the best aspects of student-centered methodology was described and an example utilizing a popular poem was provided. (Author/RK)

A Pennsylvania mining area's dirty air and water were once thought "natural," but environmental education is helping change that. (Editor)

This paper examined the merits of offering students a temporary alternative route to higher education and professional employment. (Author/RK)