Aerospace education is eminently suited to provide a framework for multicultural education. Effective programs accommodating minorities' frames of reference to the rapidly developing disciplines of aerospace studies have been developed. (RE)

Louis Lehrman opened the Lehrman Institute in 1973 and has managed to attract the country's best-known scholars to its seminars and research projects. A biography of Lehrman, some past research fellows, and a description of the Institute are included. (MLW)

Suggests how to develop and direct learning activities of an interdisciplinary nature for immigrant students in high school social studies courses. Activities involve students in vocabulary development, class discussion, role playing, and exchange of ideas with students of other ethnic backgrounds. (Author/DB)

Thirty elementary school teachers and 30 pediatricians completed a questionnaire regarding frequency and definitiveness of 13 diagnostic techniques used in learning disabilities (LD) medical evaluations. (CL)

Rapprochement among competing methods and views of marital and family therapy constitutes a major creative challenge for the field in the 1980s. Although integrative efforts have begun, psychodynamic understanding of intimate relationships is necessary for continuation of integrative process growth. (Author/NRB)

Career and business education should include instruction in economic awareness, with cooperating teachers from other disciplines offering courses or conducting workshops in economic concepts. The author suggests class activities and a cooperative economic awareness and occupational knowledge guidance program for business students. (MF)

Suggests that the origins of words, which have faded over time through technological advancement, should be studied with an interdisciplinary approach. Samples of words are listed with their former and present meanings. (SA)

The nation's oldest college is reforming its general education program to meet the challenge of the 1980s. What it does and how well it works may have profound consequences, not only for higher education, but for the high school curriculum as well. (Author)

Describes the services provided by the Family Stress Consultation Team, an Illinois community-based consultation group which has an experimental, multidisciplinary approach to the handling of child abuse and neglect cases. (CM)

Describes the development and content of an interdisciplinary unit for gifted students on hurricanes. Includes activities, games, and resources. (MA)

The School of New Resources is described as a liberal arts program that helps adults enrich their lives by building on their life experiences within a formal learning environment. Core courses culminate in a seminar to integrate or synthesize the educational process and reinforce the humanistic thrust of the program. (Author/MLW)

Two common trends are beginning to change writing courses. They are a growing emphasis upon the persuasive nature of prose, and an accelerating interest in the study and analysis of moral values. Hopefully the concern for values will help guide and direct the persuasive powers of writing. (JMD)

The author discusses the role of the teacher in integrating reading as communication in the social studies. Suggestions for directing a reading lesson and a discussion about reading skills that most relate to social studies are provided. (JR)

The data presented on the first three years of the implementation of a middle school provide evidence that the middle school concept does improve the learning climate for adolescents and provides a more positive climate for staff and community as well. (For availability, see EA 507 405.) (Author/IRT)

A course on the psychology of the aged which emphasizes a humanistic approach and field trips to institutions housing the aged is described. Six frequently encountered factors which inhibit student learning are: negative feelings towards the aged, fear of aging, social conditioning, limited acquaintance with the aged, guilt, and teacher attitude.…