Although helping students achieve academically is a major goal of public education, children come to school with a wide variety of needs and therefore should be treated as whole people rather than as detached receptacles for academic knowledge. A critical issue is the departure of adults from children's lives. What can schools do to promote a more…

Author considers the problems of the gifted student and suggests the methods teachers should use to integrate such children into the school system. (RK)

Summarizes affective education programs and evaluations of effectiveness of these programs. Specific objectives of curricula cluster into three areas--internal-emotional, cognitive, and overt-behavioral. Results indicate that programs produce measurable outcomes in all areas, although evidence of effects is less impressive in the…

Examines the fate of one of the key Plowden recommendations. (Editor)

Describes a method for capitalizing on children's interest in television by developing learning activities with high classroom appeal. (Author/RK)

Here are 15 reading games you can adapt to any level, complete with easy-to-copy illustrations. Make them sturdy the first around--they'll get used and used! (Editor/RK)

Outcome Based Education (OBE) is a holistic process for districtwide educational improvement. The Outcomes Driven Development Model (ODDM) is a means of implementing OBE that is used in 16 states and more than half of Utah school districts. A study of the impact of OBE in Utah reviewed grant applications and awards as well as state and district…

Guidelines for and obstacles to focusing on student learning outcomes as the primary educational goal are presented in this paper. Five obstacles that impede the focus on student outcomes are the beliefs that: learning should be normally distributed; education's purpose is to select talent; the purpose of testing is for evaluation only; curriculum…

The effects of science and technology upon our civilization were evaluated and the contrasting reaction of young drop-outs considered. (RK)

High school journalism courses, far from teaching a narrow discipline, have the potential of fulfilling most of youth's 10 imperative needs, according to this author. (Editor)

Discussed the Learning Activity Package, a method for creating effective individualized programs. (Author/RK)

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

A working definition of the humanities and characteristics of a liberally educated person are specified. The humanities embrace areas of human knowledge that possess these elements: central concern for human beings rather than for the processes of nature or the structures of society; primary focus on the individual rather than on the group;…

Success may be conceptualized within five major domains: academic, aesthetic, social, physical, and moral. The five domains may be further considered either within an individual or a societal dimension, depending on which party principally benefits. Finally, success can be further subdivided into two models; one being competitive, which is termed…

Discussed a curriculum guide through which school children can develop their sensitivity and independence. (Editor/RK)