Teachers should provide more real experiences for children rather than vicarious ones, in order to allow children's cognitive structuring processes to develop.

Discusses various writings on behavioral objectives for teaching English and wonders why objectives such as concepts, generalizations, insights or understandings are omitted by today's behavioral objectivists. (RB)

Presents an interview with an intelligence expert and author who proposes that the scope of intelligence testing be broadened according to his new taxonomy of intelligence, and that schools use intelligence tests to diagnose individual students' strengths and weaknesses. (MCG)

This monograph, the third in a series of documents dealing with educational accountability, contains a compilation and an analysis of goal statements available from State departments of education on the direction of public education in America as reflected in State goals. Learner outcome goals are classified under the areas of (1) basic skills;…

Specific goals for elementary and secondary public education are described in this final report. The general goal statements which are learner and future oriented, center on helping students toward achieving self actualization and realization; respect and concern for others; cognitive skills; mental and physical health; career and occupational…