Applies components of visual literacy to language acquisition and the development of language skills. Lists visual language competencies, with examples and suggested learning activities. (RL)

Five goals are suggested for making a choral festival benefit participants musically: (1) meet the specific musical needs of the students; (2) expose students to a guest conductor; (3) acquaint students with a challenging repertory; (4) develop performance techniques; and (5) introduce teacher-conductors to rehearsal techniques. (Author/SJL)

Notes how current writing research models remain of limited usefulness to the study of writing development because they do not explain important conditions such as coherence, nor do they define the systematic relationships in writing contexts. (RL)

Maintains that fantasy literature, based on archetypal rites-of-passage, provides a context in which students can gain insight into their own struggles for growth and self-awareness and that this "link to life" is one of the genre's most attractive features. (FL)

Sex education provides information about sexual functioning and helps students develop healthy attitudes toward sex. Several new approaches are available to educators to facilitate sexual development. Discusses four such approaches: (a) values clarification, (b) moral development exercises, (c) role working and (d) human potential exercises.…

Take prisoners, sow seeds, or eat the opponent's beans. A unique cultural approach to math. (Editor)

Discusses a social studies course called Man: A Course of Study (MACOS). The course takes children into the study of what makes man human, how man got that way--before students embark on higher studies in history, economics, sociology, and other social sciences. (Author/RK)

Folk music has been defined as music that folks sing. Folk math is defined as math that folks do. It's logical, useful, sensible, discusses the ways you and others really use mathematics in the outside world, and it uses language that folks use. (Editor/RK)

Counselors, faculty members, and placement personnel pool their skills to create a program that promotes student career awareness. (Author)

Reports on the pioneering Hammersmith Teenage Project, which attempts to offer delinquents a real alternative to residential care. (Editor)

Learning can be a joy when teaching means seeing, knowing and caring for each student. Try the I.C.U. approach. (Editor)

A gathering at the Executive Mansion in Washington, D.C. of approximately fifty leaders from a wide range of major policy-making groups involved in the nation's education programs examine basic aspects of quality arts education, identify factors that hinder such an education for all citizens, and recommend strategies for overcoming obstacles.…

This study obtained a tentative assessment of the impact on college students of being involved in a decision-making process. Tentative findings indicate a positive relationship between involvement in the decision making process and opportunities to participate and knowledge of the decision-making process. (Author)

An experiment with student supervisors and workers in a residential system has resulted in fiscal savings, student retention, and student development. (Author)

Surveys 2735 American and Canadian colleges/universities about whether they had a writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) program, asking for a list of WAC courses, what respondents thought about the influence of such courses on student learning and writing abilities, and about linking WAC and journalism/mass communication courses. Finds strong…