Multicultural education and intercultural communication are compared and contrasted with regard to definition, principles, practices, similarities, and differences. (JMF)

Described is Project Reach (Reaching Educators and Actualizing Children) which is designed for gifted students, and includes exercises in productive thinking, student participation in planning, decision making, forecasting, communication, creative problem solving, and mind stretching. (KC)

Recent studies of deductive reasoning are reviewed with respect to three questions: Do people reason logically? Is reasoning introspectible? Is reasoning sequential? It is argued that the evidence of reasoning experiments suggests a negative answer to all three questions, indicating that these experiments don't study "reasoning" in its everyday…

An information-processing analysis of intelligence proposed by Eysenck and Furneaux was examined in an experimental study of semantic categorization and free recall by 11-year-old children of varying intelligence. Results, and implications of the results, are discussed. (Author/KC)

Describes a modular approach in which students are taught about complex systems and problem solving through computer simulation and immediate feedback. (SK)

The author claims that open communication and extended dialog can be destructive, while bargaining and compromise can be more successful in resolving conflict. She discusses origins of the communication myth, situations where communication fails, alternatives to destructive dialogue, acknowledging incompatibility, the bargaining process, and…

This article discusses the future of federally funded teacher centers and alternatives available to those responsible for shaping future policies. (JD)

Considered are the main elements of computational chemistry problems and how these elements can be used to formulate the problems mathematically. Techniques that are useful in devising an appropriate solution are also considered. (Author/TG)

This study focused on determining the applicability of a mathematical modeling technique (goal programing) to state-level vocational education planning, using Missouri as a test case. Results indicate that such models may help the vocational planner solve problems that cannot be solved by more conventional methods. (SK)

Approaches to teaching verbal problems that are interesting and useful are reviewed. Four basic difficulties in teaching problem solving are also covered. (MP)

A survey of 67 cases of organizational change provides evidence concerning collaborative intervention. Collaboration exists in the phases of problem determination, goal setting, and solution in intervention, but its character changes. Little relationship is found between collaboration during each phase and the effectiveness or adoption of change.…

Contending that society must use technology in resolving the environmental problems which technology has created, the author provides several examples to illustrate how technology and ecology can be merged into the science of environmental management. Education must help people comprehend the causes of environmental problems. (WB)

Reports on a class activity in which students wrote letters to leaders and personalities in the fields of art, literature, and politics to solicit bits of their "trash" for a student art show. (RL)

Describes a system of heuristics for problem solving and instructional methods for presenting it to secondary school students. (CS)

Describes the specifics of instruction in thermodynamics using a problem-solving technique introduced in a previous issue of this journal. (CS)