Presents an overview of correctional education programs at the Bexas County Adult Detention Center. Analyzes its institutional systems model and describes problems encountered by the program, including funding and administration. The success of the program in changing attitudes and skills remains to be seen. (JAC)

Considers the range of reasons for the growth of the home schooling movement, providing several examples. Describes the practical difficulties facing home schoolers, and discusses the variety of legal reactions to home schooling, both supportive and suppressive, at state and local levels across the nation. (PGD)

Evaluative intervention research studies in pretend play are investigations that examine the potential of imaginative play in young children to demonstrate a relationship between play and cognitive, social, and emotional growth. A review of the research indicates that children who engage in imaginative play yield higher test scores than those in…

Describes Great Britain's Open University, which provides continuing education through multimedia teaching packages delivered via the postal service and broadcast media. Examines major instructional components and the kinds of short-cycle courses provided in the areas of inservice teacher education, health and social welfare, and adult and…

Attempts to clarify counselor's attitudes about adult learning styles, role change, and attitude change. Suggests that recent developments in adult psychology and adult education should result in different perspectives of mid-life career change. Techniques are presented to help individuals assess their readiness for career changes. (Author/JAC)

Horizon High School combats student dropout rates in Bakersfield (California) by maintaining a small enrollment, high community involvement, close student-teacher relationships, flexible scheduling, and attention to individual students' educational needs and interests. Student attendance, graduation rates, and standardized test scores are…

Compares the effectiveness of interactive free choice learning experiences to and combined with the lecture-demonstration approach in teaching sixth-grade children (N=50) to criticize and control experiments. Results contradict Piagetian theory regarding the importance of interactive experiences and exposure to materials in fostering these…

Viewing the growing disenchantment with state-controlled schooling, the authors predict that home teaching will become an established educational alternative within a short time, and they reflect on the teachings and writings of Johann Friedrich Herbart, an eighteenth-century advocate of educating children at home. (Editor/SJL)

The National University Consortium for Telecommunications in Teaching, the first national effort to provide high quality bachelor's degree programs for Americans who cannot attend college full-time on campus, is described. It is suggested that both institutional participation and enrollment projections may be exceeded. (MLW)

When forecasting the probable effects of a voucher system on the education of poor Blacks, the majority of authors whose writings were examined concurred that the exercise of educational choice would result in more productive and more responsive educational opportunities for the newly empowered impoverished Black family. (Author)

THREADS, the humanities project of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, is described. The interdisciplinary programs involve the active participation of the students. Three formats are used: ongoing discussion groups, programs conducted as part of regular union activities, and single programs or short series on topical issues.…

The John Ball Zoo School, an alternative program for highly motivated sixth graders, prepares independent learners to tackle the problems of life in the 21st century. (Author/WD)

The author argues that failing grades and grade repetition harm students and should be removed from the middle school. He presents a grading system of A-B-C-Incomplete which would eliminate grade repetition, encourage individualized instruction, and promote student self-esteem. (SJL)

The need for the tertiary college, a post-16 institution offering a wide range of vocational and nonvocational, full-time, part-time and sandwich courses in preparation for work, leisure or higher education, is advocated. The tertiary college system can also provide opportunities for economies in operation. (MLW)

Suggests six verbal techniques, other than direct questions, by which a teacher may promote classroom discussion: declarative statements, declarative re-statements, indirect questions, imperatives, student questions, and deliberate silence. (SJL)