A series of maps is presented for coloring with the fewest possible colors. (SD)

It is explained how schools may become involved in the Poets-in-Schools program.

The puritan ethic that any work is good and any idleness bad is still very active in our schools. Many teachers and parents resist the idea that schoolwork needn't be overly difficult and joyless. (SJL)

Traces the denigration of discursive prose back through the "New Criticism" to Romanticism and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who saw poetry as special and separate from other rhetoric. Notes that discursive prose can be just as creative and interesting as poetry. Urges composition teachers to shift their point of view accordingly. (RL)

Discusses the use of "creativity seminars" for releasing the creative senses necessary to language learning. (AM)

Three methods of assessing gender differences in the social behavior of children were compared and a wide range of behaviors were used to match what individual boys and girls are observed to do in a natural environment against what they are expected to do. Subjects were 72 kindergarten children from New Zealand. (MP)

Two samples of verbally gifted adolescents were tested using cognitive and personality measures. Although both groups were found to be unusually mature and well adjusted, they varied considerably in sociopolitical intelligence--the ability to formulate viable solutions to moral, social, and political problems. (Author/MV)

Described are the development and field testing of measures of creativity, thinking skills are research for academically talented elementary school students. (CL)

Creativity, intelligence, and problem-solving tasks that varied in the explicitness of problem definition and in the format for an acceptable solution were administered to 100 college students. Two hypotheses that distinguished between concepts of creative and intelligent problem-solving were presented, and syntactical and strategic distinctions…

Reassessment of 120 college females' creativity after the subjects observed others of varying creative ability showed both predicted increases and predicted decreases in subjects' component verbal creativity scores. (RL)

Provides a portrait of the young gifted child, together with issues related to identification and educational programming for these young children. (Author/RK)

What are the traits of a creative artist? How do the roles and expectations for middle-class American women possibly affect the development of these traits? Attempts to answer these questions and suggest the positive outcomes that can develop from extending ourselves outward as artists, particularly for women who have traditionally been encouraged…

A comparison was made of the effects of a topic-centered lecture and a skill-centered practice session on creativity, as measured by two tests of divergent thinking. Results were interpreted as supporting De Bono's claim that thinking skills are best taught by focusing on techniques which, with practice, can be deliberately applied to a number of…

Original games, like traditional games, can be an integral part of the total games curriculum for children and are a continuation of the progression in skill development and conception of the rules governing formally organized sports. (JD)