Four issues of volume 5 of the ERIC/CRESS (Educational Research Information Center/Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools) newsletter are compiled in this publication. The first issue presents a preview of the monograph "Outdoor Education: A Synthesis" which synthesizes and conceptualizes the current knowledge in outdoor education. A…

This issue of the newsletter produced by the Science Department of the British Council contains short reports on activities in Britain in science, in mathematics, and in general. The general section includes descriptions of programmed learning, a curriculum analysis research project, an engineering science development unit, a list of science and…

This bulletin presents news and opinions from the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are a conference report, poems in French, letters from people who attended the North American French Bilingual Conference, and photographs of activities at Project Brave. The text is in English and French. (SK)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue contains a report of the National Council of Teachers of English convention, news of the Caribou Bilingual Project, a discussion of choral speaking as part of the language arts program, a list of some differences between…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are the third part of an article concerning cultural life in the St. John Valley, a song in French, and many photographs of activities at Project Brave. (SK)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue contains a letter to the parents from the director of the program with a progress report, information concerning activities at the schools, and a description of student-centered language arts activities. (SK)

This issue of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) newsletter is entitled "Progress Report" and includes articles on the BSCS program, "The Life of a Curriculum Study" by Wm. V. Mayer; a brief report on the sixth-grade trials of the BSCS Human Sciences Program; a discussion of minicourses, with emphasis on cooperative efforts of Dr. S.…

This issue begins with a description (by Henri Niedzielski) of 10 performance objectives devised for a course in French phonetics at the University of Hawaii. The other articles in this issue are concerned with the following topics: (1) a self-instruction approach that allows colleges to offer courses in nearly every language to as few as two…

This newsletter presents a progress report for the 1973-74 year for the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). The program for the Educable Mentally Handicapped is reviewed and a new series of Animal Behavior films is described. Other articles in the newsletter include information on the Human Sciences Program with emphasis on the…

The Ledger compiles and disseminates information about economic education from various sources. The newsletter is published during the school year as a public service by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Typical issues contain a lead article, announcement of upcoming workshops, innovative educational programs, and listings of material. A lead…

This issue of the newsletter describes the five Soloworks Laboratories which are being developed in conjunction with Project Solo. These are: 1) The Computer Laboratory, focusing on those aspects of mathematics which are well described by algorithms and which encourage student access to a local computer and terminals; 2) the Dynamics Laboratory,…

The first part of the newsletter is devoted to two excerpts, respectively on the policy of school education and graduate employment and on the Council of Europe's efforts to achieve greater educational cooperation. The Council's activities are discussed in connection with its working methods. Factors of the present employment unstability are…

Details relating to the daily operation of the Computer Aids to Teaching project are provided, along with some feedback from readers of the previous issue of the newsletter. Following this are a brief article which discusses the possibility of making man-machine interactions more personal and a review of two seminars which dealt with the…

Herein is a special report on issues in German education that is chiefly concerned with educational innovations and practices in the various states of the Federal Republic. The report contains an interview with an official of the Ministry of Education, an article, notices, and announcements. The issues covered are 1) the restructuring of German…

This edition of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) newsletter contains a report of the activities of the curriculum study during 1970-71. Staff changes are noted, current projects summarized, with special reference to the programs for the educable mentally handicapped and to the developing interdisciplinary program for middle school…