A mastery-based learning model has limited value in secondary English classrooms, particularly as it relates to writing instruction. Kelsey Hammond and Chelsey Barber argue against the focus on standardized benchmarks that are tied to mastery-based models in favor of an approach to writing that is explorative, personal, and imaginative. The rise…

Reflections on being childlike. (IRT)

For those who accept retirement as we now know it in America, the system awaits with all its entrapments. For those who are against retirement, there are many attractive alternatives worth the struggle of swimming upstream. (Author)

Handling discipline through methods of classroom and school management is not sufficient. Any educational program in the public schools that does not promote the development of self-direction in pupils is gravely flawed. (Author/WD)

In their respect for tradition, educatiors have failed to learn how to face crises realistically, to analyze them for deeper underlying factors which past generations have overlooked. This article deals with such overlooked learning factors. (Author)

Addresses four questions: How do we define "gifted"? What are the human capacities of gifted children that we should help to develop? What is the responsibility of the gifted to society? How can we best help these children both to develop their human capacities and to fulfill their social responsibility? (Author/IRT)

Uses the Outward Bound School in Colorado as a metaphor for a school that emphasizes putting practice into theory, which suggests a willingness to improvise on the part of teachers and students who are fully capable of figuring out for themselves the individual and social imperatives of education. (Author/IRT)

Examines some of the trends in the human potential movement as they came out in a conference. (IRT)

Parents, professional educators, boards of education, legislators, and the general public are justifiably questioning the monies spent on education, school efficiency, what schools are actually accomplishing, and who controls the results of schooling. However, accountability, as envisioned by its major supporters, will address none of these…

The real community school is organized around basic life concerns and the problems of living. Hence, it cannot be confined within four walls. (Author)

Discusses how teachers can help students clarify their goals, values, and beliefs so that they can develop positive self-concepts for positive self-directed action. (Author)

Notes four certainties about the future (the continuing information explosion, the increasing pace of change, the growing primacy of social problems, and the increasing importance of personal fulfillment) and the implications these changes have for education. (IRT)

Presents sequentialized excerpts from full length articles that relate the specialties of health, physical education, and recreation to future community education efforts. (Author/JH)

Advocates the creation of a synergistic mind system by educating people to use, understand, and appreciate both hemispheres of the brain. (IRT)