Chapter 1 contains a general description of the Israeli school system, with a history of education in Israel and a summary of the education situation in Palestine; a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the school system's division into general, religious, and labor trends; a detailed account of the organizational framework; an…

Ninety-one teachers in three elementary schools, kindergarten through sixth grade, participated in a study of the relationships between teachers' educational preparation in the area of children's literature and the role of children's literature in their classrooms. Each teacher completed a questionnaire about educational preparation, reading of…

The purpose of this study is two-fold: it determines and describes quantatively the current status of multiple-elective programs in English in the public schools of New Jersey, and it analyzes and appraises qualitatively--using case study--two-semester elective programs for grades 11 and 12, the predominant pattern of course offerings of New…

This study was concerned with the identification of assumptions underlying language arts instruction in open education, the identification of individuals knowledgeable about language arts instruction in open education, a discussion of implications of the identified language arts assumptions for curriculum development in open education, and the…

Although both earlier and later periods in the history of English instruction in secondary schools have been extensively researched, developments from 1935 to the mid 1950s have received little attention. This study builds upon the works of Judy, Flanigan, and Botts, which provide a history of English instruction in the United States from its…

The purpose of this project was to facilitate the design and implementation of a language skills program in a small northern New England elementary school (K-6) and to document the process which the school used in accomplishing this task. When the staff was given the task of constructing the language skills objectives, a small curriculum committee…

This study is concerned with the concept of rhetorical stance: the interrelationships among speaker, content, and audience in a communication situation. It is hypothesized that when the rhetorical stance model is applied to the secondary English curriculum, the teaching of literature will improve. This hypothesis is confirmed by evidence gained in…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether individualized study, as compared to conventional classroom study, would effect significantly greater immediate and prolonged retention of both education and English content. Subjects for the experiment were 44 students enrolled in four sections of two language arts methods classes at Northeast…

The effectiveness of a performance-based, experimental writing program was investigated in samples of fifth- and sixth-grade children. The writing program provided instruction in specific syntactic variables from Golub's formula for syntactic density. Six teachers in one school were involved in the 15-week experimental program; four teachers in…

The purpose of this study was to develop a rationale for and to organize sequences of visual education concepts and skills that could function as a part of a secondary language arts program embodying the approaches of James Moffett. The literature on visual education was studied to identify those factors related specifically to professional…

The purpose of this study was to develop and field test a series of modules designed to prepare preservice education students to teach elementary-level language arts. The program included units on creativity, creative writing, listening, handwriting, and spelling. Field testing was accomplished with 37 preservice students enrolled in a language…

To determine the priorities that linguists and educators stress as essential to the development of positive language arts programs, numerous works by selected linguists and educators were read. Letters were also sent to major publishing companies requesting complimentary copies of current elementary language arts textbook series for evaluation.…

The development of the secondary English curriculum in the United States from colonial times to 1960 is investigated through periodical literature, major curriculum reports, surveys, English methods books, curriculum guides, textbooks, and secondary sources such as histories of American education and of secondary English teaching. The history…

The purpose of this canonical and multiple correlation study of measures of writing ability was to develop a valid weighted index of writing ability to replace the single measures now being used to evaluate elementary English programs. The subjects, 134 pupils from each fourth, fifth, and sixth grade level of Broadway and Dunham schools in Maple…

Thirty-one student teachers participated in a study of the language arts and reading module of a competency-based program at the University of Toledo, to determine the extent to which objectives were implemented during the student teaching experience. Results from an observation schedule and questionnaires completed by student teachers and…