The number of young children who have suffered from maltreatment has risen in recent years. This paper describes the negative neurological, psychological, and cognitive effects from this maltreatment. Interventions that can prevent abuse and neglect and promote resilience in the child victims are examined and discussed. The paper concludes by…

Word problems can be especially difficult for elementary students. This resource provides busy teachers with a new problem for every day of the school year. Period quizzes assess how well the students are mastering the problems. Tips for working the problems are provided to the students. This is ideal for improving math skills while giving…

This book describes an approach to mathematics instruction that attempts to honor children's thinking and sense-making ability. The book aims to weave strands of mathematics (addition, subtraction, place value, and problem solving) together and offer a wide variety of contexts for genuine mathematical exploration. The book is intended as a…

This introductory packet contains materials to help the school mental health worker deal with conduct and behavior problems among students. The range of such problems is described, using fact sheets and the classification scheme from the American Pediatric Association. Selections from a variety of sources discuss differences in the interventions…

Planning interdisciplinary education requires attention to the steps by which a student can learn to look at a problem in a more complex fashion, to coordinate perspectives and to synthesize these into a more integrated understanding. (Author)

Contained are five questions related to chemistry and ecology. Satisfactory answers to these five questions are included. (RH)

Author discusses both favorable and adverse pressures which confront continuing education. (GB)

Discusses the current plight of four-year colleges, especially the English departments, as a result of the economic squeeze. (RB)

An authority on career education proposes a relation between this area and the social studies' thrusts of inquiry training and values education. He defines a new role for social studies in building a multidisciplinary approach to understanding an individual's economic role and social problems in general. (KM)

A practicing white investigator reports on his experiences in conducting research in black communities; the adequacy of traditional academic training for the conduct of research in black communities is questioned. (Author/JM)

Discusses problems that make the development of education in the developing countries very difficult, if not impossible.'' (Author)

The modification of both social behavior when in the resource room and academic gains in reading and arithmetic were significant for the experimental subjects; however, attending behavior while in the regular classroom was not different from the controls. (Author)