A sensitivity to both a story's content and art form can bring children to the understandings and feelings that are basic to the humane encounter that is education. Two approaches seem to dominate the use of stories in schools today. The first is the placement of literary selections in basal readers. However, the ways in which teachers are…

Examines the pupils' reactions to a teacher's absence and discusses the relationship between regular and substitute teachers. Includes suggestions for change. (Author/SDH)

The University of Wisconsin offers a course in adult basic education through University Extension's Educational Telephone Network (ETN). Technical and teaching problems as well as student reactions to the instructional system are discussed. (MW)

Article described and then commented on a project and its effects on children and teachers after it was implemented. The project was a social studies course aimed at students aged 9 to 13. (Author/RK)

Leaders of state student associations from 22 states met in July, 1977 in Columbia, Missouri at the first national conference of state student associations. This document represents the consensus of the conference. It is a call to action for Congress, the President, state legislatures, governing boards of colleges and universities, and state…

The author discusses the steady increase in white student enrollment at historically black colleges. These students are generally categorized as: (1) being older; (2) having completed military service; (3) having little interest in student activities; (4) being married; (5) being transfer students; and (6) attending as part-time commuter students.…

This study on the consumer protection function in postsecondary education was designed to provide the following: (1) improved consumer protection strategies that would stress approaches to presenting or controlling conditions, policies, and practices categorized as consumer abuses; and (2) a nonregulatory strategy detailing ways to improve the…

Part of the Saturday Review supplement, EDUCATION IN AMERICA, sponsored by the Charles F, Kettering Foundation.

To determine how college students evaluated their classmates' writing and whether their critiquing was effective, a study examined the critique sheets of 10 students, each of whom responded to two argumentative essays written by their classmates. Results suggested that student readers did not always impose the constraints necessary for providing…

A study exploring the effects of teacher comments on student compositions sought to identify specific, effective teacher responses in order to begin the development of a model of teacher intervention during the writing process. Because a review of the literature revealed that previous studies on the subject had been inconclusive regarding the…

TO COMPARE SEVERAL METHODS OF DEVELOPING CLASSROOM QUESTIONING (PROBING) TECHNIQUES VIA DISTRIBUTED PRACTICE AND IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK, WHEN THE LATTER EMPLOYED VIDEOTAPED PERFORMANCES OF THE LEARNER, 85 INTERNS WERE VIDEOTAPED ON 4 OCCASIONS DURING THE FIRST 20 MINUTES OF REGULAR CLASSROOM LESSONS. IN BETWEEN TAPINGS THEY RECEIVED 30 MINUTES OF…

STUDENT TEACHERS WERE EXPOSED TO CLASSROOMS AS TEACHERS PRIOR TO FORMAL STUDENT TEACHING TO MINIMIZE THEIR FEARS OF STUDENT TEACHING. TWENTY-THREE STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO TEACH A SINGLE, PORTER JUNIOR-HIGH SCHOOL CLASS FOR A PERIOD OF 15 MINUTES. EACH TEACHING PRESENTATION WAS FILMED, RECORDED, AND OBSERVED. ON THE DAY FOLLOWING THE STUDENT…

A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WAS CONDUCTED TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION. THIS REPORT, THE SEVENTH, DESCRIBES THE USE OF GENERAL SCIENCE LESSONS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TELEVISED BY AN EDUCATIONAL STATION. FOR EACH EXPERIMENT TWO ALTERNATE VERSIONS WERE PREPARED. ONE VERSION (THE EXPERIMENTAL LESSON) WAS SHOWN, AND COMPARED…

Three "deep structures" of the literary curriculum (contexts within which teachers teach literature) have been identified: (1) the imitative structure, in which students learn about the background of the text, (2) the analytic structure, and (3) the generative approach, dealing with a work's effect on readers. While experienced literary critics…