This report describes a program implemented to improve the social skills of students with moderate to severe cognitive delays. The targeted population consisted of five elementary-aged students at site A and five high school-aged students at site B, both Chicago Public Schools. Analysis of probable cause data revealed that social skills issues…

This digest defines interdisciplinary courses, presents the benefits and challenges of offering them in the community college, and describes six existing interdisciplinary courses at community colleges around the country. Interdisciplinary courses are characterized by the following: they tend to be highly innovative; they incorporate concepts and…

This book describes ways to help teachers teach using technology and project-based instruction. It opens with a theoretical 3-year school-improvement plan that outlines a framework for developing curricula that address real-world applications. The second chapter describes how schools can write a sound technology plan of action, which includes…

A study examined the role of grammar instruction in second language (L2) learning by investigating: (1) whether L2 learners significantly improved their language skills after formal grammar instruction, (2) to what extent grammatical knowledge predicted a learner's next level of overall language proficiency, (3) to what extent grammatical…

This research project began as a quest to investigate more effective ways of addressing the needs of Developmental Reading and Writing students by using non-traditional pedagogies. (By non-traditional pedagogies, the paper means an escape from the traditional model in higher education of addressing reading and writing as two separate content…

This remedial mathematics curriculum for deaf community college students is organized into 22 lessons grouped into three levels: whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Preliminary versions of the curriculum have been used in Deaf Prep classrooms and taken through a development and revision process. Each lesson follows the same pattern: topic…

Article discussed the research efforts headed by an educational leader, John I. Goodlad, who attempted to influence educational change by providing a structure within which each school is helped to bring about the changes it wants to effect. (Author/RK)

Seventeen guidelines spell out major considerations for thinking about, planning, and implementing a middle school. The authors offer them as the basis for school and community discussions. (Editor)

Reviews some efforts in elementary school science made since the early 1960's, including the Elementary Science Study, Science-A Process Approach, and Science Curriculum Improvement Study projects. Suggests scientists from all levels of the educational and scientific community assist the implementation of these programs. (CC)

Author looks at how technology has affected mathematics instruction and argues that fundamental concepts should be emphasized over arithmetical skills because of computers. (HB)

A broadcast technology program at Vincennes University is described in terms of its growth in the last ten years, how its curriculum has developed, its new and improved facilities, and its employment opportunities. In the past four years this junior college program has had over 180 broadcast majors. (DS)

Excerpt from "Gesamtschule--Bilanz ihrer Praxis", ed. Wolfgang Keim, Hoffmann & Campe-Verlag, November 1973. (DD)