The concept of using good student writing to inspire more good student writing, of using a text to create the next year's text is a vital process that demonstrates DeKalb College's emphasis on individual student instruction and recognition. "The Polishing Cloth" is a collection of the best student essays from English composition,…

The primary goal of a project was to encourage students in adult basic education, General Educational Development, and English as a second language to express their thoughts and feelings through writing. Its objectives were to collect and publish exemplary student writings from adult education programs throughout the state of Pennsylvania and to…

Interest readiness as opposed to developmental readiness was the determinant in teaching five year olds to print the alphabet. (JH)

A French version of a guide originally published in Spanish for use in Latin America, this book explains how to develop instructional material for teaching reading to "new readers" in developing nations. The guide was developed to aid the teaching of reading to adults who can already read but who are not yet accomplished readers. The materials…

Presented are winning essays written by junior and senior high school students for the historical paper category of the 1982 National History Day program contest. This unique program encourages young people to explore a historical subject related to a specific theme. The winning papers, responding to the 1982 theme of trade and industry in…

Preschoolers in Maryland show how creativity is served by recycling discarded items into valuable learning materials. (CS)

Fourteen polyurethane foam domes were built on a college campus by students desiring to live in nonconventionalhousing and to build their own living environment. This paper gives a brief history and description of the project and an evaluation of the building process. (JP)

Math and language skills meet at a recipe-menu-measurement food information station. (Editor)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

This book is an anthology of unedited verse and prose written by 14- and 15-year-old students. The book is intended for teachers in training, for their tutors, and for all teachers of English. The verses are classified as undirected and directed poems about nature, places, war, the Egyptian Tomb, up and back again, and people. The prose is…