John Wilson's reasoning--that, since moral education involves educating the emotions and certain of these emotions characterize religion, religious education falls within the sphere of moral education--is false, because such reasoning would reduce religion to morality on the grounds that religious people express emotion. (IS)

Sealey has misunderstood Wilson's position on religious education. Religious understanding must be accountable to the same forms of thought and rational procedure as other forms of understanding, such as science and history, or there is no point in attempting to teach it. (IS)

Hudson fails to satisfactorily defend his claim that young people who are not initiated into religion will grow up to be less than human. Further, because we cannot test the validity of religious beliefs by the methods used for other disciplines, religion has no place in the educational system. (IS)

More teaching of economics within the social studies is vital. The California History Social Science Framework contains 13 basic concept capsules which can be used as the basis for an economics program. Suggests an integrated approach and describes a K-12 sequence to teach students economic concepts. (CS)

Describes the curriculum changes of one university's advertising program in response to feedback from the professional industry and school faculty. (HOD)

The author argues that social studies education provides students the skills needed to deal with the economic, political, and social world. (Author/RM)

Described is a method of humanizing evaluation procedures by applying both traditional grading procedures and standards of performance based teacher education programs. (GW)

Author criticizes the privileged position of religion in schools, and described some proposals for reform. (Editor/RK)

Author describes a project which encouraged mothers to take a positive role in their children's language development. (Editor/RK)

Bringing children to have respect for others is generally regarded as a central task of moral and social education. In this article one particular view of what "respect for others" means and how it is justified is examined critically and found to be unsatisfactory. (Editor)

Developing a clear idea of needs and objectives for any particular school system is the first step in planning for educational processes. (MB)

Describes a three-day all-school event that galvanizes a large city and an entire region. Its purpose--to make certain there is enough financial aid to maintain the diversity of the student body at the Catlin Gabel school in Portland, Oregon. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to describe criteria for the evaluation of religious truth. (Author/RK)

Reports the efforts of an evaluation consultant and the teachers and administrators of two vocational centers to establish measurable objectives and establish an evaluation system to measure how well the objectives were achieved. Steps are outlined for determining the success or failure of a vocational program to meet established levels of…

Contrasts learning activities designed to achieve teacher planned objectives and learning activities which permit and encourage pupils to find their own objectives. Objective-seeking activities are discussed in detail and criteria for activity assessment are suggested. (MS)