Describes the author's success in using a soft sell" approach to stimulate reluctant high school students' interest in reading. (JB)

Based on personal experience, article outlines common problems which the author notes must be expected when an outside expert or consultant gives inplant training programs. Foremost among these are the mixed educational level of the class and the resistance to new techniques or mathematical references. (PD)

Lists, chronologically by century, recordings of English poems which have been set to music, emphasizing those by avant rock performers. (RD)

An instructor's obligation is to try to implement the institution's grading norms. (IR)

Studied arousal of anxiety, which supposedly accompanies high evaluation apprehension, in 250 college students. Results showed a cueing effect with high evaluation aprehension students rating photographs more positively than low evaluation apprehension students. Analysis of the anxiety scores failed to reveal any significant differences. (WAS)

Describes the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Awards in Arts Education program designed to provide incentives for public schools to develop superior art courses. The success of the program demonstrates that rigorous training in art can significantly increase student learning and productivity. (AM)

Children in various grades from kindergarten through grade 12 were asked "What is art?" Their replies indicated that art was perceived as personally rather than socially determined, that it was seen as production-centered, and that its perceived scope largely conformed to 19th-century canons of acceptability. (Author/AM)

The widespread practice of teaching by objectives which emerged as a result of the theoretical base provided by Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" is a misapplication of educational theory which can cause students to become indifferent to their learning. (Author/SB)

Notes that children would learn much more from stories if they were allowed to relax, enjoy a story, and discover what it is they want or need from books. (HOD)

Provides a brief description of cognitive styles, particularly Witkin's model of Field Dependence/Field Independence. Proposes that there is sufficient theory and research in this area for adult educators to adopt into immediate practice. (SK)

Discusses ways that teachers can help bereaved students cope when a classmate dies. (SJL)