Describes the approach to pre-reading and reading instruction used at the Carnegie-Mellon Children's School. (ED)

Students at Madison High School, Madison, Ohio, their art teacher, and the school maintenance crew cooperate to create, finish, and erect a metal sculpture that makes everyone more satisfied with their school environment. (RK)

A regular class activity in typewriting classes at Amherst, Massachusetts, regional secondary schools is making and viewing video tape recordings of the students' typing techniques over closed circuit television. Taping procedures, student reaction, and benefits of the program are described. (MF)

The author describes a series of ten television programs on basic musical education which are scheduled to be aired over Public Broadcasting Stations for classroom use in the intermediate grades throughout the United States. A curriculum guide is also available through the Government Printing Office. (BM)

The Chinle Boarding School in Arizona engaged in a camp experience for its elementary/secondary Navajo students. Objectives were to provide: new environmental experiences; opportunities for student age and sex interactions; improved self images; an atmosphere conducive to creative expression; development of effective student leaders; and group…

Funded by the U.S. Office of Education, Title IV, Project EQ UALS is a teacher-training program involving teachers, counselors, and administrators of grades 4-9 in working to promote nonsexist mathematics instruction and counseling. Through this program students at the precollege level learned to use manipulative materials to enhance mathematics…

The author describes the organization and activities of a Young Farmers Association connected with a program of vocational agriculture to provide training for those already working as well as for those preparing for an occupation. (MF)

The model established guidelines for a perceptual motor program for learning disabled children in the areas of student evaluation, choice of activities, goal setting, practice sessions, and reinforcement. (GW)

Charts, games, role playing, stories, scientific devices and research projects are ways that a teacher helped his fifth graders to learn what to look for and where to look when exploring the sky. (Author/RK)

Papier-mache has traditionally been thought of as a quick, inexpensive and rough-finish type of activity for young children. At Lincoln Junior High, Wisconsin, papier-mache has evolved into a rather sophisticated form of sculpture. (Author/RK)

It's a slippery area where footing is easily lost and where more than talent--time, persistence, and guts--is needed before one can beat the odds and make a place for one's self. (Editor)

Describes the goals, the selection criteria, and the selection process of the Elementary Private School Recognition Program. Includes a listing, by states, of the 60 private elementary schools selected for 1985-86 recognition. (IW)

The environmental chemistry program at Vassar College consists of undergraduate- and graduate-level coursework in environmental chemistry, a research program, and a program of involvement with environmental problems in the Mid-Hudson area. Various aspects of this interdisciplinary, integrated program are discussed. (JN)

Schools must help students develop the ability to evaluate and make reasoned choices about personal and society-wide economic issues. One strategy that research has shown can help schools teach economic literacy is called DEEP, an acronym for the Developmental Economic Education Program. Steps for implementing DEEP are described. (RM)