This study was undertaken as a report on a relatively new kind of graduate program. It is intended to present the characteristics of existing general education programs in the humanities for comparison and appraisal. Since this study deals with a relatively new and still experimental field, it should be regarded as a status report, or perhaps even…

This document contains the October 1941 through February 1942 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, the U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission, school facilities in defense areas, defense training…

Geared to pursuit of an academic or professional education in college, our elementary and secondary schools do not meet the needs of the great masses of people or the resources of our nation. (Author)

An exploration of the relevance of the English teacher's traditional role, in reaction to the accusation: If you tell your students what to think, you're copping out" (Author/RD)

An open letter by the senior past president of the National Council of Teachers of English; appears also in English Journal," vol. 60, no. 5 (May 1971), pp. 641-44, and in College English," vol. 32, no. 8 (May 1971), pp. 958-61. (RD)

An open letter by the senior past president of the National Council of Teachers of English; appears also in English Journal," vol. 60, no. 5 (May 1971), pp. 641-44. (RD)

An open letter by the senior past president of the National Council of Teachers of English. (RD)

Aims of conceptual clarity of scope and aims of social studies by offering a definition of social studies as a way of organizing, selecting and teaching content related to citizenship, and by describing the three competing traditions within the social studies. A related article is SO 500 189. (JB)

Traces the development of the discipline-centered approach to curriculum planning and emphasizes need for greater integration between what is taught and what secondary students need to know and understand to meet the problems of their real world. (JK)

Jane Roland Martin's charge that a male cognitive perspective dominates educational philosophy is assessed. Martin's views on the ideal educated person (in writings of R. S. Peters and others), gender bias in the intellectual disciplines, the rationality learning theory, and self-alienation of educated women are analyzed. (PP)

Patterns of degree selection in 1970-71 and 1978-79 are compared with each other and with that of men. The rate at which women's representation in a field changes is judged by an index of rate of change, and the redistribution of women among fields is analyzed. Possible explanations are offered. (MSE)

In well-established disciplines there is largely traditional agreement about what subject areas should be included. When new disciplines emerge, decisions about their content seem more problematic. This article answers the questions of what distance education as an academic teaching discipline should cover. (Availability: Open University, 70…

The teaching of economics at the preservice and inservice levels needs to be intensified. The author explains an approach he uses in teacher education workshops to explain and clarify basic economic concepts. (RM)