Outlines the Council for Basic Education's leadership and goals. (IRT)

Detailed instructions on how to use the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) Profile Assessment System are presented in a manual intended for use by individual teachers. The system, consisting of a set of materials composed of a large Class Assessment Sheet and 30 individual-pupil records, is used for recording pupil assessments in…

SEVENTY-FIVE ALPHABETIZED, ANNOTATED CITATIONS ABOUT THE PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN, WITH PUBLICATION DATES FROM 1923 THROUGH 1965, ARE PRESENTED FOR USE BY THOSE CONCERNED WITH DEVELOPING PHYSICAL ABILITIES AND SKILLS. REPRESENTATIVE AREAS COVERED ARE (1) DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, (2) EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, (3) EFFECTS OF ANOXIA AND STRESS…

The book is an annotated directory of 84 curriculum materials available for use with severely/profoundly handicapped and multiply handicapped students. Each annotation provides the title, author or developer, publisher and address, format, developmental level, content areas, goal, description, and price, along with any necessary or suggested…

The purpose of the present research was to investigate the contribution of independent kindergarten abilities to reading and spelling achievement at the end of the second grade. The subjects were 401 urban school children, to whom 42 tests were administered, 20 kindergarten and 22 second grade. Data for both grade levels were subjected to factor…

Although many employers are dissatisfied with the level of basic skill performance in students generally, work experience programs such as those under the sponsorship of work-education councils created by the Work Education Consortium are praised. (IRT)

Schools should use good sense and scientific research to decide what, when, and how mathematics should be taught. (Author)

Describes a program--"Academic Expectations and the Fourth R: Responsibility"--and its major elements. Outlines nine principles on which it is based and how it has affected students. (RK)

Writing poetry can help children to develop basic language skills while fulfilling the basic need for self-expression. (D D)

Students do need to learn language arts basics, but not merely the ones advocated by the back-to-basics movement. (DD)

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency outlines needed skills and suggests how secondary education can encourage their development. (DS)

The methods for teaching literacy must employ joy, inquiry, openness, and appreciation of difference or the literacy achieved will be rote, mechanical and subservient to rules and order. (DD)

The back to basics movement, coupled with fiscal conservatism, does not necessarily mean a cut in the media budget. (STS)

The real basics are not grammar and the surface features of language, but syntactic fluency, accomodation to a writing situation, and responsibility for what one has written. (DD)

The aesthetic response is indispensable to all experience, and instruction in the aesthetic response is both possible and necessary. (DD)