Reaction to an article printed in the April issue. (IRT)

There is considerable naivete regarding the similarities between progressive education and open education. Discusses these similarities and differences. (Editor/JF)

Presents facts and figures to document the case that open education is a permanent educational format rather than a fad. (DW)

The University of Mid-America brings low-cost education to people in their homes through reliance on self-instruction packages and the mass media. (Author/IRT)

Moving beyond open education is a progressive, developmental step. The next stage may see diffusion and demythologization of the valuable ideas, methods, and beliefs of open education and their selective assimilation by teachers. (Author/IRT)

Contends that if open education is to succeed, it is essential to move beyond the traditional curriculum. (Author)

Ridicules the curriculum advocated for open education by Arthur E. Salz in a prior article. (See EA 504 733.) (Author/JF)

The experts on open education who responded to a questionnaire (included in the article) on seven components of teaching style in open education disagreed substantially. The majority of respondents disavow three elements commonly associated with open education: freedom of choice, student-initiated learning, and student-directed learning.…

Perhaps the most important implication of the metaphor is to suggest that it may well be the main purpose of education to provide conditions under which each child will identify and find satisfaction through a chosen field or fields of work. (Author)

Sixth in a series of seven articles on innovative programs, this description of the fate of Northwest High School in the Shaunee Mission (Kansas) School District reveals that low test scores and lack of student discipline necessitated a return to a more traditional organization. (WD)

Celebrating its 35th year, the Fayerweather Street School of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the few extant schools associated with the "open education" movement of the late Sixties. Not only has the school flourished, but it has managed to stick to its original progressive principles. Fayerweather recently hosted a panel discussion on…

In this article, the author profiles Charles Dickens Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, a school that dares to be different from the rest. This elementary school operates on a child-centered, multi-aged framework that is based on belief in an orientation towards continuous progress, appropriate evaluation of progress, schoolwide…

Presents some of the characteristics of open education, discusses some of the difficulties in evaluating it, and offers recommendations to improve the classic approach to evaluation and to encourage the use of methods outside the classic approach. (IRT)

Provides an instrument for assessing faculty and staff desire and capacity to change to an open classroom. (Author/JF)

Individualized instruction in Westorchard elementary school has resulted in high scores on standardized tests of achievement in reading and mathematics. (IRT)