Instructional communication, with its operational modalities of communication theory, instructional technology, and programmed design, is a means of humanizing education and providing an individualized approach for learners. (DS)

Describes the Common College program at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, designed to encourage students to pursue educational experience in and out of the classroom. (DS)

Describes the Llanerch Elementary School, a traditional school which has successfully converted to open classrooms. (SP)

Study indicated that a teacher's attitude toward the color black can have a positive influence upon a child's racial attitude. (Author)

Recognizing that children are comfortable with television, a rural Maine school uses it to help students better their language skills. (Editor)

Sixth graders discovered the sociological benefits derived from reading newspapers''; specific activities are listed. (Author/SP)

Describes a conceptual scheme that will help elementary school children understand the occupations and types of work he learns about in school. (SB)

Career educators appear to be developing an approach to schooling rooted in at least four questionable assumptions about the learning process. Unless these interrelated assumptions are critically examined and rectified, then the most beneficial intended outcomes of career education will be subverted. (Authors)

A comparison of three methods used in teaching science with a discussion of the meaning of these terms and the psychological assumptions which are used to justify them. (DF)

Describes a unit introducing fourth graders to the metric system. (SP)

In Dallas, high school tutors enlarge their own skills while helping other students, and everyone gets a big boost in self-esteem. (Editor)

The term surrogate experience" is a broad term that includes within its territory such events as role-taking, simulations, and academic games. (Authors)