There is growing recognition that identity formation must become an important focus in education. Particularly in the 21st century, when modes of knowledge construction and accessibility to different types of knowledge are rapidly increasing and diversifying, academic learning cannot be divorced from students' development of values, goals, social…

NASSP's "This We Believe: Secondary Schools in a Changing Society" is acclaimed by many as one of the most perceptive studies ever published on secondary education. Because of its popularity the editors of the "Bulletin" present an outline of the study's central themes. (Editor/RK)

This chapter attempts to survey contemporary debates and research on outcomes of schooling that have been grouped together under the convenient label "nonacademic". This is not an affirmative labeling. As the nomenclature indicates, it is not a label that groups together things that share like properties. Rather, this is a label of…

This paper examined the merits of offering students a temporary alternative route to higher education and professional employment. (Author/RK)

In order to assess the impact of different college environments on student development and to provide a source of current, readily available information about college students, the American Council on Education (ACE) has undertaken a large-scale program of longitudinal research on the higher educational system. The program will be based primarily…

How much should we rely on memorization, rigour and hard practice in operating the educative process? What kind of subject-matter, in what kind of sequence, does the modern child need to be confronted with in order to stand the best chance of developing his or her powers of understanding to the fullest? (Author/RK)

Article cited reasons for the phenomenal growth of IGE. Included were the advantages for teachers, administrators and students. (RK)

The feeling of insecurity, the lack of self-confidence, and the ability to relate to others that all children experience from time-to-time can be intensified in a deaf child by sensitivity to his or her handicap. A technique designed to deal with these difficulties was discussed. (Author/RK)

A school's educational objective should include three major types of goals for each individual: (1) Preparation for an appropriate occupational role, (2) preparation for the responsibilities of citizenship, and (3) preparation for enjoying leisure activities. Previous efforts to individualize education have been relatively ineffective. An example…

Defining behavioral objectives as the operational statements of behavior which a student is expected to demonstrate at the end of a course, this paper examines the state of behavioral objectives in speech instruction, reviews theoretical positions and empirical evidence regarding the use of behavioral objectives in instruction, and reports on the…

The purpose of this paper is twofold: a) to identify fundamental areas which are of concern to researchers in art education, and b) to provide the reader with representative examples of recent studies related to these topics. (Author)

First determines why evaluation is necessary and then discusses the roles and goals of evaluation. (RK)

Paper was presented at the American Personnel and Guidance Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 30--April 3, 1969.

In recent research undertaken by the author a panel of middle school experts judged a number of criteria to be essential in order for a school to consider itself a true middle school. The qualities included in this article for the six middle school subsystems are derived from their valuable input. (Author/RK)

Discusses laboratory results and other relevant material on possibly the most important period of decline in cardiorespiratory endurance and increase in obesity--the school-age years. (Author/RK)