Distinguishes self-directed learning from individualized instruction and discusses the role of the teacher in promoting self-directed learning. (FL)

Discusses (1) arguments for considerable homework, (2) arguments for minimal homework, (3) research related to homework, and (4) homework's place in the discussion of basic education. (FL)

Argues that high school principals should work to bring the business world and the business education department closer together in order to improve the quality of education. (FL)

This article describes the back-to-basics and humanistic education movements and concludes that it is crucial to maintain the balance between the two, that both have intrinsic merit. The de-emphasis of either is an abdication of the responsibility schools assume and an injustice to the children they serve. (Author/KC)

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (l) to formulate a comprehensive inventory of educational objectives representative of the cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and social dimensions of individuals and (2) to share the results of a pilot test of an inventory undertaken with educational administrators and curriculum decision makers. (Author)

At Central High School, all departments are responsible for teaching spelling and writing. A uniform procedure has been adopted for evaluating student writing assignments, which includes a list for faculty and students of standard theme correction symbols and suggestions for improvement of specific errors. The list is included. (SJL)

A survey of school administrators, students, teachers, and employers reveals that the key to preparing students for vocations in a period of rapid technological change is to make them proficient in the skills on which future learning is based--especially the ability to read. (FL)

The developments in electronic technologies over the coming decades will make reading, writing, and arithmetic less important skills for all of us. As more children learn more outside of school--thanks, largely, to the nonprint media--educational institutions could find themselves with less and less to do. (Author/SJL)

Describes the Career Exploratory Program, a successful alternative program developed at Mexico Senior High School, Missouri, for ninth and tenth grade students considered to be potential drop-outs, and based on hands-on, prevocational courses in core skill areas. (SR)

Two years after the implementation of Florida's Educational Accountability Act, which mandates statewide competency testing in reading, writing, and arithmetic, the author cites the advantages of the program, refutes criticisms of it and reviews the challenge to it in Federal District court, the Debra P. V. Turlington case. (SJL)

Describes how a learning strategies approach can enable learning disabled students in secondary schools to study effectively, using as an example the acquisition of specific information from reading a chapter in a science text. (JC)