The advantages that the case study techniques offer to social studies teachers and to environmental education are pointed out from the experiences of a teacher education program in California. (Author/KM)

Simulations for teaching environmental issues are described

The relation between science and socioeconomic development in both developed and developing countries is discussed. The interdependence of pure and applied science, technology and finance, knowledge and tradition, and national, regional, and world-wide efforts in behalf of progress are characterized. (BL)

Discusses uses of the process approach to teach problem solving techniques to education students enrolling in a noncalculus physics course. Indicates that the prospective teachers are given opportunities to do real problem solving with the hope that they can foster in secondary school youngsters a better inquiry approach to science. (CC)

This article focuses upon the role of decision-making in the schools as a vehicle for drug abuse prevention. Decision-making is examined as a process that may be structured to make learning meaningful and give youngsters the skills and resources necessary to face up to the social pressures involved in the spread of drug abuse. (Author)

Problems arising in alternative programs are no more difficult to solve than problems that arise in any other educational setting. They may be different problems, but their solutions come about the same way. (GB)

After pointing out that the concept of competition lies at the roots of our economic system, the author points out that competition is not always a good thing. (Editor)

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

Discusses a student project for the control of environmental pollution. (RK)

Author feels educational change can best be effected by reorganizing schools into a changing series of problem solving groups'' and deemphasizing the department structure.'' (Author/SP)

Describes census data that can be useful in solving recurring problems of school administration, as well as such newer'' problems as busing, rapid population shifts, and tensions in changing neighborhoods. Provides guidelines for using and sources of these data. (Author/JH)

To test materials and teaching strategies for a public issues curriculum, staff members of the Project planned, taught, and evaluated a three-year experimental program in a large high school. Evaluation data is presented. (JB)

Changes in instructional staff prompted development for different methods of conducting a three year course for college students. The author conducted a research survey during the change and determined that decision making in areas of business are dissimilar to those in education, the latter being rarely final, taking a great deal of time, provoke…