This document reports on an evaluation project to determine the effectiveness of the Fast Track method of instrumental music instruction as applied to beginning band instruction. The Fast Track music system is unique because it simultaneously aids both visual and aural learning by using a book and cassette tape approach to instruction. Traditional…

Article is a report on NASSP's Model Schools Project that includes statements by a teacher, a student, and the principal of one of the MSP schools. (Editor)

The last phase of the NHTSA-U.S. Coast Guard Driver Improvement Training and Evaluation Project is described. Begun in July 1970, the project had two basic objectives. The first was to determine whether or not driver training programs do, in fact, significantly reduce driver errors and accidents and improve overall driver efficiency. The second…

This article addresses one instance in which "a marriage" between commerce and education would be very appropriate. The author discusses the advantages of the print medium, and of the newspaper in particular, in education, and shows how this could be used very effectively in adult education. (Author/CT)

Describes the design of a tutorial lesson, the benefits of such a lesson, and the drawbacks of such a method. Suggestions for word processing teachers are listed, including requiring students to write their own "operating manual" and using tutorials as an introduction to word processing functions. (CT)

This article examines the various aims and methods of open universities and compares them with the system pioneered by Britain's Open University. He discusses the differences between open university systems, the place of the media, and the potential for conflict created by differing control systems. (CT)

The article reports results of a study on the Adaptive Learning Environment designed to integrate moderately handicapped students in regular classes on a full-time basis. Data supported the ALEM as a feasible and effective approach and identified significant reading and math achievement gains for regular and special education students. (CL)

Evaluates student achievement in second year individualized language programs at the University of California at Berkeley and contrasts data with results of student achievement in basic courses. (RL)

A supervisory training program shows how classroom training results help predict potential foreman success. (Editor)

Briefly traces history of farm mechanics programs and discusses the changing terminology, policies, and objectives in planning and teaching the programs. (SB)

Identifies six "back-to-basics" factors that can have a positive effect on future industrial arts education program development: the instructor, students, objectives, content, methods and techniques, and evaluation. (CT)

Following every unfortunate and tragic school shooting is an accompanying cry for moral/character/values education, in the belief that such teaching could have prevented the tragedy. Society decries the rising statistical evidence of the apparent lack of values and character demonstrated by youth as evidenced by soaring crime rates among very…