Students who understand the relationship between population growth and change and the quality of their life and the life of their children will be better able to make responsible decisions about their world. Discusses the addition of population education to the curriculum, the objectives of teachers and the government in teaching it, and how it…

In order to begin an analysis of why students and their teachers come to school, observations, anecdotal recording, and interaction analysis systems must be keyed to answering several basic questions about the cultural and personal values of the teacher and the student. Discusses society's dominant values and a value analysis designed to help…

Long aware of the correlation between various skills, English teachers need suggestions for systematically relating these skills to each other and to course objectives. Here are six suggestions for developing reading skills in the English classroom. (Author/RK)

Links thinking to intellectual, moral, and emotional responsibility and invites school administrators, teachers, students, and parents to think about thinking beyond academic tasks in order to eradicate nonthinking "I thought" processes that cause irresponsible acts. (JK)

Develops the concepts of educational vision and consensual leadership, highlights their interrelationships, and indicates how the consensus leader should behave in the vision-building process. (JK)

Offers an innovative way for teachers to introduce a poetry unit to secondary students, using photographs, published poetry, and student participation. (JC)

Offers suggestions for improving teachers' techniques for questioning students, such as ceasing to ask leading questions or questions that require only a yes or no answer and instead asking questions that require deeper thought. (JC)

Advocates promoting a good relationship between school and community by greeting visitors in a courteous and friendly manner. (JC)

Argues that categorical funds should be available with few restrictions so that local education agencies can make decisions on how to add the funds to the tax-levy base. Claims that this type of funding could provide a variety of instructional programs to meet the needs of targeted students, without segregating them or contributing to their…

Discusses the problem of prejudice toward the children of school administrators. (SRT)

Describes the development and implementation of a writing project for which students wrote letters to senior citizens. Reflects on students' writing improvement and positive attitude toward writing. (SRT)

Recommends Louis L'Amour's books to adolescents on the basis that the books will motivate them to read more, expose them to a strong advocate of the value of education, and stimulate interest in the classical literature referenced in L'Amour's works. (SRT)

Examines parents' perceptions of their children's education. Concludes that parents deemphasize the importance of standardized test scores and grades on report cards, oppose ability grouping, and consider reading, math, grammar, spelling, and science to be the most important subjects. (SRT)

Reports on two common views of learning styles, and presents a set of activities to show how curriculum can reflect each learning style. Discusses a method for accommodating all learning styles. (MM)

Discusses Stephen Tanner's model of using literary criticism as a discourse, asserting that it fails to train students to think, but only teaches them to discuss literature from an academic perspective. In contrast, Robert Scholes' model of textual studies offers both a workable methodology and a relevant curriculum. (MM)