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)

Late in the summer of 1966, the so-called Dartmouth Conference--the first large-scale international conference on English teaching--was convened at Dartmouth College. Here is an outline of the educational changes that took place during the development of the New English and a few reasons why it did not receive the broad approval that many…

Suggests how a solid program of education, one that has a core curriculum of basics, can be built and still retain the necessary flexibility for fostering creative expression. (Author/RK)

Comments on five basics about composition and composition teaching essential for all English teachers. (Author/RK)

High school students can and should be proficient in using such basic skills as reading, writing, computational skills, thinking, and listening. Here are five guides for accomplishing this goal. (Author/RK)

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)