A comment from the author on the design and validity of the research concerning the use of teaching methods on children's progress and achievement in primary schools is discussed. (Editor/RK)

The United States Office of Education, in cooperation with the Alliance for Arts Education of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is administering a program of grants and contracts to encourage and assist the establishment of arts education programs. Guidelines for qualifying for a grant or contact are provided. (Author/RK)

It's small and inexpensive but complete. A prime-time attraction for your TV-oriented students. (Editor)

Children say "I'm special" with their own photographs while they develop new skills. (Editor)

The Youth Services Training Program in Westport, Connecticut, eases handicapped youngsters through the sometimes anguishing step from school to job. (Editor)

In the second of two TES articles on mixed-ability teaching, authors showed how the method operated for science and mathematics at Abbey Wood, and collected reactions of the school's teachers, pupils and parents. (Editor/RK)

This article provided some basic suggestions on how to get the most out of rehearsal time. (Editor/RK)

This article took us to the elementary school level for a description of a highly successful program that developed opera lovers among the children in the Tucson, Arizona schools. (Editor/RK)

This study examined the extent to which each of four factors contributes to students' estimates of their development in college. These factors are: (1) student/faculty interaction; (3) student involvement; (3) quality of a student's effort; and (4) peer interaction. A mail survey was completed by 484 students. The instrument used was the College…

This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 5, Number 1 are: "Affinities and Contradictions: The Dynamics…

A renewed emphasis on arts education has come after a period of neglect during the 1980s and early 1990s when the arts were often slighted as school budgets grew tight and as educational priorities shifted to the basic academic subjects. Recently, results of several research studies have confirmed the advantages of student participation in arts…

Theater, the imagined and enacted world of human beings, is one of the primary ways children learn about life--about actions and consequences, about customs and beliefs, about others and themselves. Theater arts benefit the student because they cultivate the whole person, gradually building many kinds of literacy while developing intuition,…

Fear appeals are persuasive messages that emphasize harmful physical or social consequences of failing to comply with message recommendations. Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) emphasizes cognitive or rational reactions to fear appeals and identifies four message components which initiate corresponding cognitive mediating processes of appraising…

Technical communication specialists today really have to be technology experts as well as effective writers--even their titles have changed to "information designers, information engineers, or document developers." Teachers of technical communication should be up to date in the classroom to meet the changing needs of the workplace.…