Discusses the Free School" movement in Ohio metropolitan areas, with programs where children are learning without textbooks, without formal classrooms, without receiving grades, and with no attendance requirements. Focuses on an experimental high school in downtown Cleveland, the Cleveland Urban Learning Community. (RJ)

Using job-type activities in production typewriting to measure pupil progress in terms of occupational efficiency. (Editor)

Concern about poor mathematics achievement in U.S. schools has increased in recent years. In part, poor achievement may be attributed to a lack of attention to early instruction and missed opportunities to build on young children's early understanding of mathematics. This study examined the development and feasibility testing of a kindergarten…

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate child impacts following implementation of a comprehensive language curriculum, the Language-Focused Curriculum (LFC; Bunce, 1995), within their preschool classrooms. As part of this larger purpose, this study identified child-level predictors of expressive language outcomes for children…

This paper is a contribution to the debate in Germany and beyond in Europe on future directions for education. It builds on and extends earlier work by the authors, on democratic experimentalism (Moss, 2009; Fielding & Moss, forthcoming) and early childhood workforce professionalism (Urban, 2008, 2009, 2010; Dalli & Urban 2010). At a time…

One of the challenges facing school educators is motivating students to learn science. This study is part of an evaluation of enriched science curriculum introduced in five western Canadian (Alberta) urban schools. The objective was to develop a multidimensional instrument suitable for evaluating the attitudes of students toward science with a…

A description and analysis of an experimental course, the first of its kind, which has as its objective the education of teachers from institutions concerned with library education in the non-industrialized countries in order to expand and help to improve the quality of library education in these countries. (Author)

This interim report of an experimental 16-credit, team-taught course, which included literature, composition, speech, and social studies, focused on the problems of poverty in two cities. Results indicate a positive change in student attitudes toward the problems of poverty and of the poor. Evidence includes pretest and posttest scores on an…

Brief descriptions of 25 different approaches to learning are given, along with examples of each, areas to which each might be applicable, and possible instructional objectives and methods of evaluation. The selection of methods is rooted in the following premises: that the purpose of education is to serve the educational pursuits of students;…

Report of a study by James J. Martin entitled The Development of Sentence-Writing Skills at Grades 3, 4, and 5''. (Author)

The mathematics curriculum at Barton County Community College (Kansas) has been divided into 15 mini-courses to enable students to pinpoint their learning needs more specifically. (NF)