In separate articles, the authors urge administrators to carefully consider what is essential to education before making budget cuts. Both articles are speeches delivered at the 1981 American Association of School Administrators convention in Atlanta. (Editor/SJL)

The author presents a rationale and specific techniques for teaching grammar in the high school. (SJL)

Presents four principles (aesthetic knowledge, aesthetic response, aesthetic creation, and aesthetic evaluation) by which the arts must be anchored to basic education. (Part of a theme issue on the crisis in music education.) (Author/SJL)

The authors review some of the literature which discusses the controversy over the value of homework and then offer 11 prescriptions for teachers to follow when making homework assignments. They suggest the need for additional research into the learning processes in children. (KC)

This article assaults the definition of the characteristics of a theory of education; the discussion covers the place of morals within such a theory, the Hirst-O'Connor controversy, and other views of theories of education. (KC)

Outlines the structural elements useful for systematic construction of an industrial arts curriculum. Steps include (1) curriculum foundations (definition, rationale, goals); (2) curriculum content (scope, sequence, specifications); and (3) curriculum evaluation. (SK)

Several current viewpoints concerning values education are identified and suggestions for a comprehensive approach to values education are offered. (JMF)

This paper examines several unrealistic assumptions regarding fundamental purposes and expectations for public education and offers recommendations related to priorities, scope, purposes, expectations and directions for our nation's public schools. (Author)

Critiques direct instruction for its emphasis on fact accumulation at the expense of thinking skill development. (SJL)

A listing of the 25 most prominent contributors to adult education was prepared from analysis of survey responses from 41 professors of adult education. Findings from the study are expected to be useful to the practitioner in course development and in identification of influential individuals. (MF)

Examines purpose, access barriers, and opportunities of higher education; sets the policies in a broad social context; and identifies some long-term impacts of present trends. Discussion centers around achievement of equality, equity, and equilibrium. (ND)

The natural history of a censorship campaign is described and analyzed. Conflict between the fundamentalist preachers and community educators is described within the framework of a mass society interpretation. Special emphasis is given to the emergence in the rural South of immanent conflict between the cosmopolitan ideas transmitted in the…

Notes that primary grade teachers attempting to implement developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in their classrooms must contend with the competing professional models of early childhood education and elementary schooling. Describes the practices of one primary grade teacher, which, despite problems of interpretation, inconsistency, and only…

Describes reading in schools using the Paideia philosophy (a set of teaching and learning goals to help students acquire a core of general knowledge, develop fundamental skills, and enlarge their understanding of ideas and values). (RS)