Evidence suggests that a middle school organizational design has some administrative advantages over the traditional junior high school program because of the more unified social and academic atmosphere. (LH)

This study was undertaken to assess the freshman and sophomore curriculum requirements of engineering schools and to develop guidelines to improve junior college pre-engineering curricula. (BB)

A teacher discusses his attempt to analyze his pupil's difficulties with arithmetic by looking at the component parts of each operation. (MP)

An account is given of the use of the calculator and Cuisenaire rods in examining decimals that result from the division of whole numbers. (MP)

Describes the emergence of scholarly thought that puts considerations of children and childhood at the center of the profound rethinkings of nationalism and the nation-state that have taken place within the last several decades. Introduces the international conference on children and nationalism from which articles in this journal derive, and…

Asserts that modern ideas about the nation can be characterized by an emphasis on outer boundaries, and that contemporary Norwegians put questions of units and boundaries into the foreground with particular force. Describes how boundaries are important in Norwegians' everyday lives, most notably in current debates about raising children and about…

Supports teachers in resolving problems of teaching long division. Discusses an approach focusing first on modeling the partition process with base-10 blocks and having students come to a conceptual understanding of the standard long division algorithm. Evaluation of the approach concluded that it helped students conquer the division concept. (ASK)

Discusses an exploratory study that examines student interpretation of remainders in division as applied to word problems in a restrictive school setting and in a real-world, out-of-school setting. Concludes that students lack the ability to map computational results to the real-world context. Contains 16 references. (DDR)

Presents activities that can be helpful in establishing a conceptual basis for dividing rational numbers. Some activities involve metric units while others are appropriate for small-group work with calculators. (AIM)

Describes the development and implementation of the Academic Conference, a process-oriented grade-level team approach to accelerating student achievement at Oak Ridge Elementary School in Sacramento, California. (PKP)

Argues that no solid basis exists in the research literature for developing, placing, and aligning educational standards in school curricula or for placing subject-matter content at specific grade levels (scope and sequence). Welcomes input from readers who have information regarding educational standards and their development, placement, and…

Argues that the geopolitical theory of Halford Mackinder and Derwent Whittlesey is outdated. Applies a developmental approach in general systems theory to geopolitical analysis. Explains that the evolution of superpowers enables gateway states to attain independence, facilitating global equilibrium and allowing an international integrated system…

Examined whether Career Decision Scale (CDS) scores and four subscales were related to high school students' (N=465) career decision status, grade level, and gender. Findings demonstrated utility of using factor-based subscales to create typology of career indecision and showed many significant differences on various indecision scales resulting…

Evaluation of the group-based technology system of providing immediate, item-by-item feedback on mathematics problems with 15 learning disabled elementary school students found students completed significantly more problems and increased their level of accuracy in the feedback condition. (Author/DB)

This paper describes variables which tend to influence the utility of health education literature. It is important that instructional materials be suited to the reading level of the students as well as their ability to comprehend the meaning of the printed materials. A graph for estimating reading level is included. (JD)