An interview of Alice Murton, one of the pioneers of English informal education, and a director of the National Froebel Foundation in London; her work as infant teacher, headmistress, and HMI spanned some 50 years. (Author/JM)

It was concluded the 3-group achievement plan did as well as the flexible grouping plan and less time was needed for planning and implementation. (Author)

Author uses horror films and record albums to interest students in cooperative activities and the use of their own freedom. (RK)

Part 1 of a continued article. (RS)

Paper presented in Bonn, April 1970, at a meeting of directors of German-language courses for American students. (RS)

Teachers should consider using strategy games to introduce students to problem solving in an enjoyable way. Advantages of games, criteria, games and variations to use, and classroom organization are each discussed. (MNS)

Reviews research in the areas of classroom organization and management, delineating the principles underlying a comprehensive approach to these areas. (MP)

Summarizes the responses of more than 10,000 teachers on the issues of testing and licensing, unionism, professional image, classroom practices, discipline, teacher education, and the federal government's role in education. Notes findings on respondents' demographic characteristics, salaries, and working hours. (SJL)

Data from 47 college classrooms suggest that the extent to which students' perceived actual locus of control coincided with their preferred locus over decisions about topic sequence and instructional materials correlated positively to their appraisals of overall instructional effectiveness. Agreement with classroom decisions also correlated…

Reviews research on the principal's role as instructional manager. Considers four factors: instructional organization, including time, class size and arrangement, and grouping; school climate; the principal's exercise of authority, power, and influence; and the nonschool context, such as personal and district characteristics and the external…

Techniques and instructional strategies for individualizing a high school chemical program are reviewed. (SK)

The authors briefly describe their research on teaching cooperative classroom behavior to students; outline the essential components of a curricular activity designed to foster cooperative behavior; and explain how teachers can promote in their students both the skills and the affective components of cooperation. (SJL)