Strategies suggested in this handbook provide ways for the intermediate grade teacher and the class to share in summarizing and analyzing educational developments associated with "Man: A Course of Study (MACOS)". The evaluation devices focus on pupils' perceptions and critical insights to develop their ability to explore questions about…

The role of geography in the elementary school curriculum is examined in this paper, which is arranged in four parts. Part 1 briefly sketches the characteristics of geographic instruction at different periods in U.S. history. Intellectual development and social education are identified as two widely accepted goals for elementary education today.…

The volumes present goals for use in planning and evaluating elementary and secondary school social studies curricula. The book is intended to help social studies classroom teachers identify learning goals. Organized according to major social science disciplines, the two-volume series is presented in six sections. Section I introduces the…

The Early Childhood Education Project (ECEP) is an experiment in the effects of educational intervention of two-year-old first-born children from impoverished black families. Twenty ECEP children were compared to a control group on the basis of a battery of pre- and post-tests after six months of intervention training. Teachers attempted to…