A program devised to involve college sophomores in activities to help residents of a ghetto area is discussed. (CK)

A summary of Soviet research in sleep-teaching and implications for the future. (RY)

Describes three prize-winning alternatives to traditional schools developed out of the USOE's experimental schools program. (JF)

Discusses impending congressional action on the voucher plan and the implications of the Supreme Court decision upholding the busing program in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg school system (Author)

Warns that the leverage made possible through widespread use of vouchers and performance contracting can make education a less certain product that will have exercised its influence beyond the point of recall for a generation of students. (JF)

Describes the preparation, structure and experimental testing of an examination designed to test student achievement in the subsidiary German course at the Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, one of several subsidiary language courses aimed at giving Modern Language students a sound working knowledge of a third language. (FB)

The goal of this research is to understand how generalized exchange systems emerge when information, as the object of exchange, produces a collective good. When individuals contribute information for a collective benefit, it can create a group-generalized exchange system that involves a social dilemma. I argue that two properties of information,…

In their specialized schooling, blind children are now frequently presented with raised line figures and maps. However, there is still much to do in evaluating the cognitive effects of training using these displays. The purpose of this research is to determine if the level of expertise in the haptic exploration, and the perception of the raised…

We present a set-theoretic model of the mental representation of classically quantified sentences (All P are Q, Some P are Q, Some P are not Q, and No P are Q). We take inclusion, exclusion, and their negations to be primitive concepts. We show that although these sentences are known to have a diagrammatic expression (in the form of the Gergonne…

Article investigated the influence upon children's behavior of television programs that feature violence. (RK)