This paper examines grade spans (grade configurations) and their importance in community school systems. Research has shown that geographic location often dictates the kind of grade configuration districts use. Furthermore, every grade configuration has strengths and weaknesses, and school officials must focus on developing the positive potential…

This book explores how primary school children with dyslexia or dyspraxia and difficulty in math can learn math and provides practical support and detailed teaching suggestions. It considers cognitive features that underlie difficulty with mathematics generally or with specific aspects of mathematics. It outlines the ways in which children usually…

Author presents a number of operational programs with some of their respective characteristics which may be of value in planning programs in local school districts. (Author/CB)

A simplified procedure for systematic program planning is presented. (NQ)

Discusses desegregation plans for school systems and the various techniques such as rezoning, grade restructuring, and others involved. (DM)

Discusses Richmond College of the City University of New York. (HS)

Author gives arguments in favor of replacing the junior high school with a completely new way of educating youngsters between the primary and high school years." (Author/SP)

Notes on divisibility using manipulative materials, cyclic groups of functions, Horner's method of synthetic division, arc lengths of cycloids and cardioids, number squares, and students' concepts of mathematics. (MM)

Diffy" is a game designed to generate interesting drill in subtraction. it is based on the result that repeated subtraction with a cyclic sequence of whole numbers eventually produces a sequence of zeros. (MM)

The middle school is gradually emerging, while the junior high school is expiring, to meet the needs of the pre-adolescent. It is necessary to profit by the experience gained in administering the junior schools in order for the middle schools to be a success. (MF)

In this study the significant relationship between vocational decisions and school grade and the lack of association with age level indicates that environmental influences on vocational development are more closely tied to educational level than to chronological age. (Author)