Argues that correctional education can and should be value centered and illustrates how a concern for values can be integrated into the traditional content of various courses. Indicates that a lack of values underlies the debilitating process of imprisonment. (JOW)

The impact which standardized mathematics tests have upon classroom instruction--content, sequence, pacing--is explored, and harmful consequences are discussed. Four suggestions are offered for enabling teachers to minimize "teaching for the tests" and to present a mathematics curriculum appropriate for their particular students. (DG)

Discusses the state of computer use in classrooms and cites several problems. The consideration of computers as "toys," elitist attitudes, administrator/teacher/parent demands, computer manufacture pressure, and lack of a clear definition of computer literacy are addressed. Suggestions for improvement are included. (DH)

The Special Program Responding to Intellectual Needs of Gifted designed an assessment and intervention process similar to special education programs. Individual objectives and activities were written based on present functioning. Three years of implementation produced change in excess of chance and maturational projection in 22 of the 26…

Discusses issues related to goals of science education, considering the context of the curriculum during compulsory education and two concepts of curriculum design (balanced and core curricula). Also discusses four themes emerging from the debate on the goals: problem solving; understanding of self; cultural heritage; and moral/ethical issues. (JN)

Because objectives can easily become ends in themselves, rather than the foundation of a total program, the objectives of a music program must be under constant evaluation. Social, cognitive, and aesthetic objectives of music education are discussed, and a model to integrate the objectives is presented. (RM)

The Curricular Efficiency Index (CEI), a method for evaluating developmental gains of young handicapped children by comparing their progress with nonhandicapped peers in attaining developmental objectives of any commercially available developmental curriculum, was supported in a study involving 16 handicapped and 21 nonhandicapped preschoolers.…

Nonfictional family case studies are used to illustrate and explicate basic sociological concepts and propositions. Cases are read in conjunction with a standard textbook, and students complete written assignments designed to place the true life stories in a sociological context. (Author)

Discussed are the purposes of public administration (PA) instruction, the needs or results sought by public administrators, ways to improve the fit between needs and instruction, and what a theory of PA instruction should contain. (RM)

The Reagan administration's spokesman for vocational education responds to questions from the American Vocational Association on the following: (1) the level of federal support to assist states and local communities, (2) the continuing federal role regarding the nation's program of vocational and technical education, and (3) how legislation should…

The aims of punishment as traditionally conceived are, in the case of children, incompatible with the aims of moral education. The onus of justification must rest with those who wish to impose upon children. (Author/RM)

The author cites two cases of children with learning problems to distinguish between learning disabilities (inability to fulfill family and personal, social, educational, and vocational goals) and learning impairments (satisfaction with attained educational, interpersonal, and vocational goals). (CL)

Presented are two models that indicate the set of competencies, and the systematic procedures for implementing those competencies, for preventing learning problems in young children. (Author/RK)

The relationship between the research into creativity and the changes in school mathematics is investigated. Problems arising from this relationship and the research which attempts to solve them are considered. (Editor)

Account of the aims and activities of the Netherlands Maritime Institute provided by the Secretary to the Institute's Board of Directors, The Institute's intent is "to promote maritime activities, including the shipbuilding-shipping relationship, in the broadest sense of the word." (Editor/RK)