This book focuses on building community through the sharing of history and traditions that students have inherited. Two eighth-grade teachers collaborated with others in their Oregon school to collect teaching strategies for this book. The teachers worked to build curriculum that integrated social studies with language arts and other subject…

The mission of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools is to improve, through cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, our understanding of optimal ways that parents, teachers and other service providers in family, school and community contexts can promote the intellectual, socio-emotional, physical and behavioral…

Discusses the characteristics of the Rensselaer design educational programs which emphasize the use of computer-oriented laboratories and linear algebraic equations as analytical tools. Effects of the Sloan Foundation grant are studied. (CC)

Describes a two year trial course in curriculum and instruction of science and mathematics at California State College at Bakersfield. The course attempts to unify the two disciplines for the prospective elementary school teacher in terms of theory of learning and strategies of instruction. (JR)

Discusses the necessity of three kinds of educational programs in engineering to develop the full potential of three groups of biomedical practitioners such as the generalist, the specialist, and the technician. Includes outlined procedures for implementing each program. (CC)

This third of a three-article series describes impact resulting from the neglect of student involvement, unstated delimitations in scientific methodology, and overemphasis of performance objectives. Provides a list of four recommendations for further curriculum innovation. (CC)

Adaptation from the keynote address to the Association for Childhood Education International Annual Study Conference held at Denver, Colorado in April, 1972. (CB)

The South Central Kansas Elementary Science-Math Project involves integrating science and math, active learning, and inquiry. Approximately 25,000 students are involved in the program. (CP)

Presents the philosophy, history, description, and implementation of the Minnemast mathematics-science curriculum project. (CP)

Single copies of this report are available from the Secretary-Treasurer, Eugene Savaiano, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67208. Bulk copies are available at cost. (DS)

An Iowa school district has a successful program to develop basic reading skills of junior high school students with reading difficulties. (MF)

The use of group discussions, somewhat structured at first, to help youngsters know themselves and one another, is described by a school nurse and principal who helped establish such a program in a Denver school. (CJ)

Describes the Michigan State Trainers of Teachers of Teachers Project (TTT)--a project in which representatives of university, public school, and community work closely together for the good of the student. Stresses the clinic team approach and its values, particularly in terms of active involvement and intergroup cooperation. (JS)