A description of a mathematics laboratory established in a north Philadelphia community where the need for the laboratory could not be met in the school." (Editor/AK)

Learning centers are designed to assist and guide the capable but fundamentally ill-prepared students in acquiring needed background. (MM)

In this article, the author describes the experiences middle school students on a field trip to the new Constitution in Action Learning Lab in the Boeing Learning Center at the National Archives can expect. There, middle school students take on the roles of archivists and researchers collecting and analyzing primary sources from the holdings of…

The Magic Mathworks Travelling Circus is a touring maths lab--in and of itself, a good thing. When children enter it, they find particular pieces of apparatus captioned with particular challenges--which is perhaps not such a good thing. Students are faced with an apparatus that can do only one thing, and so are not encouraged to look again at…

The paper discusses the steps a teacher should follow in organizing a learning center. Considered are the two types of learning centers (curriculum and skill area centers), skill objectives, and criteria for selecting materials and equipment. (SBH)

This book is intended as a guide for teachers who want a practical aid to individualization of learning. Its primary focus is on the specific steps needed to implement learning centers. This includes planning, scheduling, teacher-student relationships, student evaluation, and finding and using materials. The book is divided into four sections.…

Describes the learning center as a concept which supports and implements learning events at all levels of training and education. (Editor)