Six speakers consider programs for the retarded. Geraldine K. Fergen describes the challenge of special education; James O. Smith discusses planning appropriate language programs for children with retarded intellectual development; and Bobby Palk outlines the sequential development of skills in the trainable mentally retarded. Also treated are…

Classical language studies must not be deleted from modern high school and college curriculums despite the current concern over decreasing enrollments. In an attempt to find a solution to the unfavorable enrollment trend, Dr. John Rexine counselled the integration of classical studies into a more socially-oriented curriculum stressing satisfaction…

The main thesis of this book which describes a pupil-centered curriculum is that students should use language more than they customarily do. The curriculum is based on a "naturalistic" approach "whereby students learn essentially by doing and receiving feedback." Consequently, most of the book is devoted to guiding the student from a posture of…

The variety of influences on the teaching of literature at the elementary school level is illustrated by this description of current practices and review of research and development in the area. The following types of materials are reviewed to point out recommended practices: curriculum guides, objectives of library programs, textbooks for…

Nine papers read and discussed at the Skytop, Pennsylvania, Colloquium are presented along with discussion summaries by Theodore Andersson. Opening the colloquium with a paper on the importance of language style in education, Moses Hadas urges the cooperation of teachers of modern foreign languages and of classical languages in order to achieve…

The National Committee for Support of the Public Schools focused on the claims of students and parents at its Seventh Annual Conference. Topics covered were student unrest, community involvement, relevant issue oriented approach to social studies, instructional television, student-run educational experiments, school management, classroom…

Language instruction techniques are developed through extensive discussion of methodology with sample lesson plans in Spanish, French, and German at the elementary and secondary level. This state curriculum guide also comments on program articulation, selection and use of a language laboratory, evaluation of student achievement, and the place of…

Small schools, at one time the basis of education in the U.S., achieved an uncomfortable status with the development of urban centers and increasingly larger schools. Urged to consolidate to provide better services and to reduce costs, small schools were reluctant to abandon many of their advantages, such as close teacher-student relationships.…

Without well-defined criteria for success, all radical innovations are doomed to failure. To facilitate successful experimentation the following are necessary: an outside agency to conduct evaluation; criteria of success acceptable to innovators and critics; and, in control and comparison groups, assessment and accounting of the initial versus…

With the hope of providing materials for use and adaptation in Oklahoma schools for improvement in all areas of human relations, a guide to the implementation of the principles of human relations in the educational system, of inservice programs, of self evaluation and of resource activities is offered. Four short sections discuss the American…

One of 11 guides which can be used as a resource for teachers in implementing the exploration phase of career education in the middle/junior high school, the guide is not intended as an exhaustive in-depth study of the communications and media field. It serves rather as an indication of directions a classroom teacher might take in introducing the…

One of 11 guides intended for use at the junior high school level of career exploration, the primary focus of the teacher's guide is on the many occupational opportunities within the transportation cluster. Four occupational clusters are treated: (1) land transportation, (2) water transportation, (3) air and space transportation, and (4)…

The new guidelines constitute a supplement to the New York State Syllabus for a Comprehensive Program: Home Economics Education. This new approach provides guidelines for reorganizing the program for Grades 5 and 6 into four basic subject areas and six content emphases. The four subject areas are: human development; housing, furnishing and…

The book is designed to help elementary school teachers and administrators understand precepts underlying career education and to give concrete guides for including career education concepts in the daily classroom experience. The first chapter provides background information on career education, its basic premise, promises, and problems; the…

This material developed as a resource in Los Angeles, California, is designed to assist teachers in the planning of social studies programs for grades one, two, and three. The ideas and suggestions are related directly to the two State textbooks which were adopted in 1971--"The Social Sciences: Concepts and Values," and "Voices of Life." The…