What does the future hold for educators and facilities professionals when it comes to planning, building, funding, and operating school facilities? No one can absolutely know beforehand. However, there are many, many indicators of where public education in the United States may well be destined. These indicators take the form of already occurring…

This issue of a quarterly publication on world affairs explores the historical significance of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the implication for U.S. foreign policy. With the breakup of the USSR in 1990-91, Russia for the first time this century does not have control over the non-Russian nations of its former empire in Central Asia,…

To introduce primary grade children to the five themes in geography, a play about the United States is presented as a musical. The five themes are location, place, human environment interaction, region, and movement. The play is designed to help students understand the multicultural nature of U.S. history. Eleven states are located on a map and…

The practice of student grouping from the perspective of critical school district involvement in the proposed program is examined in this report, with a focus on the relationship between grouping program outcomes and the degree of district support. Four school districts in Texas participated in two substudies: the first examined the performance of…

The 199 microcomputer-related ERIC documents listed in this resource guide were reviewed and assigned identifiers from 41 variables (descriptors) in five categories: curriculum (content), educational uses, educational level, hardware/software, and miscellaneous. Variables were assigned on the basis of whether the user interested in this variable…

A review of the research indicates a consistent, moderate correlation between self-concept and academic achivement suggesting that school personnel need to pay more attention to the self concept variable in both preventive and remedial interventions. (Author/CS)

Almost from the beginning, the junior high school was based on the same vision driving today's middle level schooling: the creation of a unique middle tier of education that bridges the gap between elementary and secondary education and focuses on meeting early adolescent students' academic and personal needs. In the 1950s and 1960s, middle school…

Chapters 5 through 10 of a 14-chapter, three-volume work on arithmetical applications are contained in this document. Each chapter details the "use classes" of one broad arithmetical concept. (A "use class" of a concept is a set of examples of real world uses of the concept which share a common structure). Each chapter…

Puerto Rico has been enmeshed in a debate over status within versus status outside the United States since 1898. The 1952 legislation that established commonwealth status for Puerto Rico created a compact between the residents of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Congress that requires the consent of both parties to any future decisions about the political…

This guide is one of a series designed for teachers, supervisors, and curriculum specialists in communication arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The series incorporates new topics and concepts from the corresponding New York State Education syllabi, and is intended to give educators a sense of the continuum within a particular subject…

Following instructions provided in the teacher's manual, the SCOPE Mathematics Achievement Test booklet for grade 3 presents 11 mathematical concepts. Testing items include: skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's to 100, 3's to 30, and 4's to 40; writing number words to 20; identifying and naming 100's, 10's, and 1's in three-digit numerals; reading…

The SCOPE Mathematics Achievement Test booklet for grade 3-s contains the same testing items as the test booklet for grade 3. This booklet is more suitable for the more mature student; therefore, directions have been written to permit the student to take the test with little or no teacher direction. (ERB)

The performance of two groups of 24 third-grade students practicing division problems was used to assess the effect of microcomputer drill programs on learning. An experimental group that used computer drill programs from the Milliken Math Sequences package was compared with a similar group that learned division using the traditional print drill…

As a result of declining enrollment and resources, a school closure task force was appointed in February 1981 by the 4J School District in Eugene (Oregon). Because the 4J Board of Directors had determined that the enrollment in several schools had become too small to maintain both efficiency and district standards, the task force was directed to…

A study investigating the morale patterns of a group of 123 student teachers over the course of a 14-week period indicates a discernible pattern for three different groups. High and low morale patterns varied between groups of preservice teachers depending on their projected grade level specification. Early childhood, elementary, and secondary…