This study was conducted to determine if raters would use a single policy for determining the beauty of paintings and to demonstrate the JAN technique in an experiment where the predictors first had to be hypothesized and then a quantified measure ascribed to each. (Author/RK)

Discusses the need to standardize foreign language curricula to the extent that content for each of the four successive years of a language program is universally accepted. (DD)

Describes Follow Through, a program designed to develop and demonstrate alternative ways to reinforce and sustain Head Start benefits as children move through the elementary grades. (Author/RK)

The question to be answered in the study was: Are there significant differences in learning when students are presented organizers before the learning passages (pre-organizers), after the learning passages (post-organizers), or when they are presented only the learning passages (no-organizers)? (Author)

Looks at the arguments for and against education vouchers and compares a recent New Hampshire voucher program with an earlier voucher experiment in California. (DN)

Describes an experiment in which the achievement of a high school class graded on a pass-no pass system was found to be equal to that of a close receiving traditional letter grades. (SP)

Higher education may be contributing to its demise unless it sets as its goal the moral and intellectual health of individual and society. (Author)

In all fairness, administrators who have implemented innovative" programs should provide candid, down-to-earth descriptions and analyses of these programs to other educators seeking panaceas for educational ills -- only after such programs have been tried and found worthwhile. (EA)

While preschool education in Israel is extensive and has a relatively long history, its scope and traditions act to deter innovation and change. The pressing needs of the disadvantaged may, in the next few years, create enough force to bring about long-awaited changes. (Author)