The educational advantages and features of learning centers are presented. (Author/MF)

Defines and illustrates free, haiku, cinquain, diamante, septolet, and quintain verse patterns and urges their use in motivating students to compose poems. (SW)

Evaluates TESOL program in secondary schools in Hawaii. (DS)

Argues that in teaching standard English to groups which, like Eskimos and speakers of Hawaiian Pidgin, are quite removed from mainstream American culture, role playing, as natural human behavior, can provide the bridge between classroom drill and real-life utilization of new language patterns. (FB)

Presidential address delivered at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) in San Francisco, California, on December 30, 1970. (DS)

Suggests a module system of units of 60-70 students with 5 or 6 tutors, each student teacher experiencing the continuity of working with the same primary and secondary groups for three years' practice teaching. (IR)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (RD)

Argues that an English teacher should not be so concerned with permitting students' creative expression that he neglects nurturing their critical, evaluative skills. (RD)

When a school's efforts toward change are patterned in tune with its basic organizational structure, these efforts will more than likely result in success. (CK)