A prison education program that provides inmates the opportunity to complete the requirements for a bachelor's degree at Central Michigan University is described. Since 1976, more than 100 incarcerated students have enrolled, and nearly 40 have graduated with a bachelor of science degree. Students may major in either management and supervision, or…

The broad context of curriculum planning, staff development, and administrative decision making is the focus of this handbook for developing school writing programs. The guidelines and activities included in this handbook are meant to be suggestive; the ideas presented in this handbook will, in most cases, need to be shaped to suit the…

The Pennsylvania Writing Project (PAWP), a regional outreach service of West Chester University, is described in this report. Among its basic assumptions are that: there is a nationwide need to improve the writing skills of school graduates; a pervasive problem is in the teaching of writing; colleges, universities and schools share a common…

Addressing many aspects of the use of computers in elementary reading instruction, this annotated bibliography in six sections contains 27 items from the ERIC database from 1987 to April 1989. The first section contains items discussing the pros and cons of such use; the second section deals with organizational aspects of computer use in the…

The first of four major sections in this report presents an overview of the background and evolution of computer applications to learning and teaching. It begins with the early attempts toward "automated teaching" of the 1920s, and the "teaching machines" of B. F. Skinner of the 1940s through the 1960s. It then traces the…

In spite of courses and workshops, beginning teachers are most likely to teach mathematics just as they were taught. Changes in certification requirements, such as expecting teachers to complete more coursework, or improvements in curriculum materials, such as programs that emphasize problem solving, have also been insufficient to alter the…

This booklet contains proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the University/Urban Schools National Task Force. The conference was held to present information about four programs designed to help high school students to sharpen their reasoning skills. Criteria for program development state that: (1) the program can be taught to teachers in a…

The following approaches to mathematics education, represented in German-speaking countries mainly, are analyzed: (1) the structuralist/formalistic approach; (2) the genetic approach; (3) the approach by elementarization; (4) the problem-solving approach; (5) the approach of Freudenthal; (6) the approach by project-orientation; (7)…

One of the constants of professional life for social workers is the need to write. For this reason, the social work instructor needs to emphasize the development of students' writing skills. Such skills cannot be left to composition courses alone, nor can it be assumed that students will emerge from degree programs with sufficient writing ability.…

A cultural divide exists in the classroom, with each participant (teacher and student) having rarely-coinciding objectives for a session. In this paper, the authors wish to reflect on the teaching and learning of science as a process of creating understanding from both sides of this cultural divide. Gary, the second author, describes the…

Inservice bilingual education is one of many ways that can be used to help educational institutions make changes necessary to meet the educational needs of the linguistically and culturally diverse students, as well as to bring about an overall enrichment in educational systems throughout the nation. This report describes the sequence of…

This is an overview of a project in which cross-age tutoring is used as a means of enhancing the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This teaching method is referred to as the "Learning-Tutoring Cycle." It is recommended that secondary students who are in need…

Presented is the final report of the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) in Learning Disabilities at the University of Arizona. Purposes of the LTI are reported to have been to give technical assistance to the Child Service Demonstration Centers which were alloted funds by the Bureau for the Education of Handicapped Children in eight states…

The diagnostic and educational services components of the Austin Early Childhood Special Education Program is reviewed. It is explained that the project's educational planning and curriculum are based on interdisciplinary assessments. Discussed are such diagnostic activities as the initial comprehensive evaluation, instructional arrangement, and…

Presented are six papers originally delivered at a colloquium series on the problems of the learning disabled child, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary perspective. In "One Psychologist's Perspective on Learning Disabilities," J. Kessler provides an overview of the field with sections on definition and identification, etiology, testing as a…