The author uses a student-directed game-creation exercise to evaluate student learning in a freshman level university geography course. Students are instructed to develop a game demonstrating knowledge of basic population-resource interactions which have been discussed in classes during the course. (Author/AV)

Involving children in games stressing cooperation rather than competition helps them to overcome the tendency to be too aggressive and teaches them compassion and caring for others. (JD)

In attempting to adopt characteristics of free schools, the public schools adopted teaching methods. This attempt failed to caputre the essence of free schools because what was innovative about them was political--changes in administration and organization--rather than pedagogical. (Author/IRT)

The College Venture Program, a Boston-based consortium of New England liberal arts colleges, annually helps place hundreds of student clients--"stopouts" or "interruptees"--in temporary jobs while they contemplate their future college plans. Counseling services are offered and a job bank is maintained. (LBH)

Presenting conclusions drawn from the testimony heard by the Social and Cultural Commission at the International Conference on Racial Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations (1977), this report emphasizes the importance of Native: cultural recognition and preservation; education; and family and community preservation. (JC)

Six alternative school programs are evaluated to provide additional insight into their effectiveness in (1) promoting cognitive achievement, (2) developing positive student attitudes and self-concepts, (3) developing positive behavior change, and (4) providing long-term benefits to the students. (MJB)

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The Learning Tree School has a well-developed program of cross cultural experience involving children, parents, and community in an effort to increase cultural awareness and appreciation on the part of its students. (MB)

This is an interview with four junior high school teachers in which some of the features of a junior high school program within an elementary school are discussed. (AM)

In 1969 Hampshire College in Massachusetts explore the "contract for service," by which faculty appointments are made for three-to-seven-year terms. Experience to date has shown low turnover, with fewer opportunities but better retention for young faculty. The relationship of the contract system to academic freedom is not yet tested.…

Goals, courses, delivery systems, faculty, instructional materials and methods, and students of the Army continuing education program are described. Characteristics adaptable to civilian alternative higher education are summarized, including: credit for life experience or by examination, ad hoc faculty, performance testing, and student incentives.…

The Field Studies Program is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary experience in field-related education at the University of California - Berkeley begun in 1971. Self-study has generated a model of field-related education based on doing, thinking, and communicating that leads toward increased competency and consciousness. (Author/LBH)

Helping students learn how to learn should be a major teaching objective and a major teaching skill in nontraditional education. Evaluation processes, both in planning and implementation, should be consistent with knowledge, values, and goals of nontraditional education, and their basis should be a theory of adult learning. (Author/LBH)

This article traces the history of the progressive education movement and its impact on traditional schools and discusses the complex problems involved with arriving at a satisfactory educational balance between the different concepts. (JD)

The future challenge facing institutions of higher education will be in providing better education for individual students rather than expanding facilities and broadening course selection. (JD)