Good basic education depends on several factors working in harmony. The first is that students be healthy, safe, and ready to learn. Other essentials include an enabling policy environment and transparent management; a curriculum that reflects the society's values and aspirations for learning; and community support for education and parents'…

Urges caution in adopting the literary response model developed by the Center for Psychological Study of the Arts. (See also CS 700 446) (RB)

Rejects the premise that all parts must be related to the whole and to each other in a written composition. (Author/RB)

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

Suggests that a problem with the use of materials and methods devised for use with John Dixon's growth English'' is the temptation, under the stress of large classes and overcrowded timetables, to use it for class lessons along traditional lines. (Author)

The finding that effective practice did relate significantly to a trainee's achieving results with pupils is in harmony with the literature of practice effects. (Author)

Defined here are those considerations which underlie the formation of staff development patterns weaving them into a theoretical, philosophical, and practical whole. (Author)

Creativity is synonymous with education. The entire classroom situation must be that in which a child can be creative. (MF)

Describes the development and organization of elementary, individualized, programmed instruction in the past decade. (AN)

In light of the goal of the Social Studies, the development of good citizens, the author explores the character of a necessary and sufficient" social studies program and its relationship to the Social Sciences. (JB)