This collection includes 13 essays on various aspects of learning and elementary education. Individual essays describe, discuss, evaluate, or make recommendations about: (1) the urban school curriculum; (2) individually guided education; (3) in-service teacher education; (4) design of the science curriculum; (5) use of psychology in mathematics instruction; (6) reform in the reading curriculum; (7) the teaching of history in the social studies; (8) social studies learning activities; (9) provision for individual differences in the designing of the curriculum; (10) oral communication; (11) systematic teaching versus incidental learning; (12) the philosophy of education of Marva Collins; and (13) the grouping of pupils in the elementary school. (RH)