The issues of greatest current interest in the field of gifted education are reviewed, including comprehensive curriculum planning, enhancing development of both academic and creative dimensions of giftedness, and use of non-school resources. Also discussed is nurturing future leaders among the gifted to address the world's social and scientific…

Analyzes the value orientations of Swedish teachers regarding basic social issues such as economic conflicts and political preferences. Concludes that Swedish teachers are dominated by value orientations distant from those of the working class and that the school provides a picture of society that is more consistent with employer's interests than…

Discuses the use of "The Island of the Skog" with an eighth-grade humanities class to deepen students' awareness of the problems leaders face and to aid students in the development of group interaction, leadership, and decision-making skills. (NH)

Reviews a classroom experience which used the computer simulation "Decisions, Decisions: Immigration" in a secondary school social studies class. Highlights include descriptions of the decision making process, rank ordering of priorities, political and social issues relating to immigration, and benefits of teaching the simulation. (LRW)

Contains suggestions for students regarding making up nicknames for animals based on their observations. Also includes information about the overpopulation of pets and urges students to write letters to their newspaper editors about this problem. A sample letter is provided. (TW)

Examines several novels, short stories, and movies in a mini-course on the image of rural America in popular culture to determine if the idyllic picture of country life sometimes favored in the media leads to a mythologizing of country life. (NKA)

Reviews conditions in the United States supporting the need for the treatment of terrorism in social studies textbooks and reports the results of a survey of 19 high school government and history textbooks. Concludes that only two books offered students any help in defining or understanding terrorism. (JDH)

Examines the statistical dilemma and the controversy over media exposure concerning the issue of missing (abducted) children. Also looks at the role of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in relation to this issue. (Author/BB)

Noting that economic crisis until recently was considered a peculiar characteristic of free-enterprise economies, this article provides factual information demonstrating the economic crisis in the planned economies of eastern Europe. It describes in detail the consequences of the crisis for education in Poland. (JDH)

Following a brief history of education over the last forty years, this article provides a discussion of the meaning, impact, and relevance of the recent educational reform movement in the United States. (JDH)

This article describes the static or declining economic conditions of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden and relates these conditions to restrictions on education, the relationship between education and employment, control of education by governing authorities, and the employment conditions of teachers. (JDH)

Offers a brief introduction and resource list on teaching about science-related social issues. Provides three complete lesson plans for elementary, middle school, and high school use. The topics covered in the lessons are energy production and consumption in the United States; nuclear power concepts, issues, and controversies; and the arms race.…

Reviews the majority of academic freedom and civil liberty cases on which the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) took action from 1936 to 1970 and concludes with a list of some of SPSSI's positive and negative experiences. Overall, SPSSI had made important positive contributions. (ETS)

The author argues that industrial arts/technology education must assume a more significant role in the educational arena. The profession must operate in tandem with other subject matter areas to develop and reinforce those commonly accepted process skills. The nature of instruction must focus on the overriding societal issues of a given area. (CT)

The president of the Exxon Education Foundation suggests that the study of philanthropy and the philanthropic tradition should be incorporated into formal education in the United States, in public education, the undergraduate curriculum, and research. (MSE)