This article discusses bilingual education as it relates to the Spanish-surnamed students of the Southwest. (RC)

An individualized first-quarter composition course. (AA)

Reports on a case study in which the teacher spent considerable time working individually with a tenth-grade student whose attitude toward her own writing developed throughout the sessions. It was concluded that individual instruction is of exceptional importance. (JM)

Discusses the reading program at Boys Republic High School (a California rehabilitation center for boys who are wards of the court), which is based on self-worth and individualized instruction. (JM)

Students participating in a self-paced basic arithmetic remediation course preferred instructional booklets to audiovisual presentations. (STS)

Examples of activities that take place in the district's elementary schools are cited as well as a commentary by various staff members on how the media programs are integrated with the schools' total instructional programs. A brief history of the school district's media programs is also discussed. (JPF)

Describes a model of instructional theory relevant to individualized distance education that is based on Keller's Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), behavior analysis, and the instructional systems development model (ISD). Systems theory is emphasized, and ISD and behavior analysis are discussed as cybernetic processes. (LRW)

Provides a walk through a model "essential" high school belonging to the National Coalition of Essential Schools. These schools feature the basics carefully integrated into a few subject areas, teaching across the curriculum, pedagogical variety, materials matched to different students, insistence on mastery, cooperative problem-solving,…

Advocating individualized instruction, this article provides a model for conducting research on individual student differences which teachers actually recognize and use to modify their instruction. Provides examples of how teachers accommodate individual differences in middle and junior high school classrooms. (JDH)

Examines the relative merits of using computer networks (several computers linked together and sharing a single disk drive) and stand-alone systems (self-contained units operating independently) in Australian primary school classrooms. Advances several arguments favoring stand-alone systems, which improve accessibility and enhance individual…

Discusses the differences between institutionalized and personalized learning in adult education. Suggests that all human learning is a game and that personalized learning might lead to an improved normal society. (CH)

After surveying selected characteristics of the 840 one-teacher schools in the United States, the author found an average enrollment of 11 students. Teachers in these schools devoted more than 90 percent of their time to providing individualized instruction. (MT)

Summarizes some of A. Adler's thinking about education and describes the programs--called Individual Education--developed from this thinking by R. J. Corsini. (FL)

Predictable books--those that use repetitive, cumulative, or familiar sequences--can be effectively used in individual and group instruction with learning disabled students. (CL)

Offers suggestions based on research that can assist teachers in providing their students with more legible handwriting. (FL)