Grammar is not a four-letter word. Learning vocabulary is not a form of punishment. They are the basis of any language, and a student who wants more than a tourist's booklet of useful phrases will need to learn them sooner or later. The second edition of this popular little book takes the sting out of the exercise and even makes it a pleasant…

This book, written on the recommendation of the Task Force on Mathematically Promising Students, investigates issues involving the development of promising mathematics students. Recommendations are made concerning topics such as the definition of promising students; the identification of such students; appropriate curriculum, instruction, and…

Discusses proposed curriculum reform at the advanced level of academic secondary schools in West Germany. (WB)

Describes fourth year (1966-67) of a longitudinal study of 30 bright fourth graders. All but one student showed definite improvement for the combined performances of tests administered to measure progress. (EK)

Suggests that teachers on secondary and college levels should develop closer relationships and work together to promote the study of history at both levels. Presents a case study of a college (the State University of New York at Stony Brook) and a high school (Shoreham-Wading River High School) which have developed a successful working…

Three activities are presented that provide opportunities for independent research, expanded learning and the exchange of ideas: the "Think Box,""Inquiry Reading" and "Operation Interaction," to give skilled readers the enrichment and challenge they need. (Author)

Investigated the role of higher-level syntactic and semantic processes and lower-level word recognition and graphophonic processes in adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) reading comprehension. Particular focus wa on the extent to which these processes can discriminate skilled from less-skilled readers in a sample of fairly advanced ESL…

Describes Bard High School Early College, an adaptation of Bard College's Simon's Rock early college model and aspects of Bard College's curriculum to a nonresidential, public school setting. (EV)

Examines the options of academic acceleration and enrichment for maintaining high levels of challenge, interest, and achievement in children who are extremely gifted in mathematics. Recommends acceleration combined with enrichment as the best option. (34 references) (MKR)

Metacognitive behaviors of subjects having high (n=2) and low (n=2) levels of mathematical experience were compared across four cognitive processes in mathematical problem solving: orientation, organization, execution, and verification. High-experience subjects engaged in self-regulation and spent more time on orientation and organization. (36…

Investigated use of reading skills by intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish to determine whether performance is uniform across learners and across reading texts. Subjects read two authentic unabridged passages in Spanish and were asked to answer questions based on the skills isolated for the study. The skills were locating details that…

Discusses the use of two trial lessons on poetry writing in an advanced English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) composition course for Ethiopian EFL teachers. (Author/VWL)