Author suggested that we need to know more about the nature, extent, and distribution of youth patterns to which the Coleman report addresses itself and that we want to look more closely at the political feasibility of its suggested remedies. (Author/RK)

Author believed that the Coleman Report represented a conservative political act, that the point of view toward young people is politically conservative, and that the document is designed to satisfy the needs and wishes of the status quo. (Editor/RK)

Two authors describe how their participation in an outward bound program has helped them develop a greater degree of general self confidence, greater ease in dealing with complex and frustrating problems, and a greater appreciation of man's place in the natural environment. They also describe Outward Bound courses that have been especially…

The Right to Read is educational priority number one in a crusade under way statewide and already involving over 400,000 youngsters. (Editor)

A formula for setting objectives in medical education for problem-solving skills, therapeutic proficiency, procedural and interpretive skills, and enabling objectives is described. (Editor)

This article presents a detailed counseling strategy based on the principles of verbal operant conditioning. It argues that such a strategy should be effective for working with vocational rehabilitation clients whose main complaint is that they are unable to make vocational decisions. (Author)

In this paper some of the issues and recurring problems in operating Multidisciplinary Training Teams in school settings are recounted, and principles and procedures for dealing with such matters as initial attachment of the team to a school, problems within the MDTT team itself, and modification of roles are discussed. (Author)

A test of distributional and sequential structure. (CH)

The relevance of performance problem-solving for education is discussed in terms of its effect on the marketability of graduates, the cost-effectiveness of educational programs, and the drop/push/failout rate. (Author)

A game is presented in which computation by a stepping-stone method is used to solve minimax problems. An additional application of this game is used for finding the Pearson correlation coefficient by non-parametric techniques. The game provides considerable computational practice as well as a motivational problem solving situation. (JP)

This document is the final report of the San Jose Teachers Association "Teacher Involvement Project," designed to improve school capacity for problem solving through teacher involvement in the decision-making process. The report concerns the management, the program, and the activities of the third year of the program, and is divided into seven…

This paper outlines the increasing prospects for improving the problem solving component of future mathematics programs. Of particular interest is the development of a viable growth schema for general problem solving strategies and skills. The plan presented here provides for five levels of problem solving sophistication. The main body of the…

The ideas in this workbook for stimulating children's creative thinking are presented as integral parts of ten stories about a boy named Dudley Bond (a distant relative of a very famous spy), his friend Max (a professional bear), and his cousin Maybelle. They find their imaginations stretched by a backyard scientist-inventor who knows dozens of…

This paper describes an investigation of problem sequencing as part of a symposium presenting theoretical concerns and research findings regarding several diverse types of strategies for designing and presenting instructional materials. The first step involved analyzing a set of problems, to determine the knowledge (rules) required for solving the…