The small percentage of private schools with flourishing senior project programs share common characteristics of program philosophy and design. These programs help students take advantage of available programs such as the annual two-week long Chesapeake cruise of the 60-foot schooner "Dawn Treader." (SB)

Strategies are given for enhancing learning in the informal environment of the museum. Collaboration between the school and classroom is encouraged. (SA)

Maintains that learning will be facilitated through appealing displays that permit active participation of children. (DB)

Results of a survey of 173 programs providing Experienced Based Career Exploration (EBCE), a program concept that integrates academic learning and career exploration for handicapped individuals, are presented. (PHR)

Instruction of linear measurement skills to first and second graders is found to be more effective when taught in a manipulative context than in a graphic context. No differences are observed between manipulative and abstract instructional methods. (JMF)

A study was conducted to determine the benefits vocational agriculture students derive from supervised occupational experience (SOE) as perceived by parents. Three clusters of benefits which vocational agriculture students derived from SOE were identified: work attitude, occupational development, and human relations skills. (LRA)

Although cross-cultural learning is not new, its objectives and role are not precisely defined. Several questions are posed that consider what can be learned in cross-cultural situations, assessment of the experience, and credit for the experience. (Author/MSE)

The objectives, content, and intent of an undergraduate mathematics course at the University of Northern California. The course focuses on gambling and bets, with the focus of ideas on probability, expected value, computers, and the mathematics of finance. (MP)

Suggests that curriculum should not divorce content from context. It matters what we know, but it matters equally that we know when to apply it. In this respect, acquisition of knowledge is no different from the acquisition of ability. (Author/KC)

Providing students with realistic problems will facilitate a better understanding of and reason for computation. Specific suggestions for introducing and for increasing problem-solving skills are described. (CJ)

Whitehead's analysis of experience can contribute to an understanding of the process of liberal education by distinguishing among the experiential bases and characters of various kinds of knowledge. Subjective experience is identified as the basis of all philosophical inquiry. (JN)

Includes an explanation of "instructional theory", a sequential comparison of "information assimilation" and "experiential learning", and information on the educational value of Foxfire. Available from: Center for Environmental, Camping and Outdoor Education; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Pine Lake Field…

The school administrator must instill ethical behavior in both students and employees. These two tasks need not have separate solutions. In working with both students and employees, administrators must eliminate barriers to communication, provide opportunities to engage in ethical discussions and decision making, and represent a model of ethical…

Presents a theoretical perspective on how student work experiences can integrate theory and practice and add to values clarification and self-understanding for students. A practical classification model for identifying learning associated with student work-related assignments is presented. (Author)

Earthwatch, a nonprofit clearinghouse that places interested amateurs on scientific expeditions, has sent over 3,000 people to work with 350 scholars. This article describes experiences of a young woman doing archaeological fieldwork at a 300-year-old California mission. (DS)