Reviewing the President's Commission recommendations, urges language departments to: make language teaching, rather than literary scholarship, their top priority; make intensive or immersion language courses part of the regular curriculum options; develop common standards of proficiency assessment; foster interaction among themselves; support…

An approach to inservice training for teachers of elementary mathematics, designed to meet a set of common problems, is noted. The organization places a mathematics course between two education courses. A sandwich approach to whole number arithmetic is detailed. The method is viewed workable for any mathematics curriculum area. (MP)

Reports on Minnesota educators' views of the changes that will occur in secondary education over the next 20 years. Examines possible changes in curricular emphasis and design, instructional design, the nature and organization of the student population, staffing patterns, space arrangements, and time arrangements. (RL)

Cricizes Jacqueline Kasun's article denouncing sex education programs. Refutes her charges that the sex education program in Arcata, California, was designed to indoctrinate children in the direction of a new morality. States that the program was an attempt by teachers and the community to reinforce familial and moral values. (BE)

Presents a survey of the state of the language art, pointing at its incongruity with present educational enterprise and sociocultural trends. Suggests an early introduction to language studies based on cooperation with primary and secondary schools, an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum design, and a strong advocacy of liberal arts studies.…

Discusses developments in biological education in Israel during the last 15 years. Trends include the change from descriptive biology to the inquiry-centered teaching of concepts and the move toward a modular approach. (Author/MA)

A study to demonstrate the wide divergence of attitudes to various aspects of music between students of different levels of education, localities and sex, and also between students and their parents, and between parents of different sex is reported. Recognition of differences must be considered in curricula design. (Author/MLW)

Argues that social studies is an academic discipline in its own right. Only through an interdisciplinary social science approach can students understand societies and social problems in their true complexity. Suggests creation of a true secondary social studies will require reform in secondary school curriculum and social studies teacher…

The typical structure of mathematics tracks in secondary education is described. Mastery of arithmetic skills at grade level in the elementary grades is seen to be of critical importance for students to succeed in secondary mathematics and be able to look forward to a wide choice of careers as adults. (MP)

The multicultural content and cultural educational impact of motion pictures, television, radio, newspapers, and magazines are examined, including the implications of these media for the development of multicultural education in the schools. Teaching strategies and the role of the media are outlined. (JMF)

Frances FitzGerald's critique of American social studies and history curricula in "America Revised" is reviewed. The conclusion drawn is that censorship, special interests, and marketability exercise too great an influence on the textbook industry. (JMF)

Mastery learning is a philosophically based approach to teaching and learning which focuses on effective individualized instruction in the group oriented classroom setting. This article discusses the development and application of mastery learning theory and its implications for teachers. (JN)

The author reviews research on gifted and talented students and describes several programs for the gifted. He states that educators must identify and analyze problems in dealing with gifted students and design programs which meet their individual needs. (KC)

A design for teaching human behavior to undergraduate social work students is described that is multidisciplinary in its knowledge base, employs a comparative and analytical approach to a variety of theoretical concepts, and is directly linked to the problem-solving competencies of practice. (Author/MLW)

Though student-designed programs have been justified by references to humanism, systems theory, and romantic idealism, a more secure foundation lies in developmental theory. When properly advised, it is suggested, student-designed programs resemble the most desirable processes of liberal education. (Author/MLW)