This article was prepared as a starter for Ralph Nader's campaign for better nutrition in school cafeterias. The ideas suggested were not too costly and were designed to provide sound nutrition for students. (Editor/RK)

Article criticizes the ill-conceived nostrums of the educational engineer and focuses on "opening-up" the learner rather than having him "shape-up" to presumed contingencies that are to come. (Author/RK)

Teachers can help students restore the human dimension in the learning process through a wide variety of activities. Newspaper stories, magazine articles, and television news coverage are excellent sources for the language arts teacher's efforts to stimulate student awareness of their feelings and environment. (Author/RK)

The orientation course, described in this article, was intended to provide some help and guidance for students as they approach adolescence and enter a new educational environment. (Author/RK)

Two parents, both teachers, outline the needs of their son and how the middle school concept can help satisfy some of those needs. (RK)

The Project Redesign grant proposal, developed by the faculty of William Cullen Bryant High School, was responsible for the initiation of a comprehensive career education program. That program and the Careers Center and Career Guidance Service were the focus of this article. (Author/RK)

An important goal of a social studies program is not only to help students face change but also to develop future goals for himself as an individual. This article considers a process for instructing students to use the past and the present for projecting the future. (Author/RK)

Author considered what could be done to foster the need for thinking and acting internationally. (Author/RK)

The tensions that accompany growing up are distressing enough for middle school youngsters, without adding unwarranted pressure for grades. University Middle School faculty considered these factors when they developed the system of student evaluation described in this article. (Author/RK)

In response to a legitimate concern expressed by science teachers that some students in their classes have difficulty reading science materials, the literature relevant to this problem was explored and reading specialists were consulted. One outcome of this exploration was a list of specific suggestions and techniques designed to help improve…

Using vignettes of individual handicapped children in Ohio schools, the authors discuss the importance of P.L. 94-142 in helping these children to develop productive lives. (SJL)

Discusses research identifying and examining specific "developmental assets": positive building blocks that all children and youth need for success. Discusses the role of these assets in health promotion and risk reduction. Outlines specific actions educators can take to build 12 of these developmental assets. Notes the special place of health…

Teachers in the English department at the Harley School, Rochester, New York, developed a program in theater as a continuing and inherent part of the English curriculum. (Author/RK)

Article focused on current programs dealing with the future, and the development of students so that they can better understand the problems of today as the challenges of the future. (RK)

Article provided a short, series of steps teachers can follow when examining reading in secondary subject matter. These steps were intended to aid the secondary teacher (especially those with no formal training in reading instruction) to improve effective reading in the classroom. (Author/RK)