These comments on open education, team teaching, focus on skills, individualized learning; and, felxible and community electives are part of a report written for the Ford Foundation by the former director of the Curriculum Laboratory of Goldsmith's College, University of London. (JM)

Some proposals on how children may learn the basic multiplication facts through practical activities based on the rectangle. (MM)

Author suggests that if postsecondary schools admit applicants who have little chance of success in existing programs, then more appropriate programs should be instituted and the goals of existing ones should be reviewed. (Editor)

Describes a yard, garden, and home maintenance program designed to enable handicapped students to become employable workers. (SB)

Maintains that the "basic skills" taught in the schools should be those required for functioning in current society. (SW)

Basic skills being taught are often unrelated to skills required by new technologies. Teaching obsolete skills in minimum competency programs is useless, even racist. The concept of basic skills changes with emergent technology. Sound instructional systems require meaningful philosophy, goals, and awareness of the findings of developmental…

Argues that if students are unable to show improvement after two semesters of innovative writing instruction, they should not be forced to continue to write essays. (AEA)

Three reasons are given for including measurement estimation in the curriculum. Nine appropriate strategies for the estimation of length and area and five inappropriate strategies were identified during a pilot study that observed 24 students in each of grades five, seven, and first year of college. Instructional implications are noted. (MP)

Reading and related basic skills should be stressed in the elementary social studies curricula. An integrated curriculum makes social studies more meaningful to students and strengthens its position in the curriculum. (Author/AM)

The first presentation discusses a way of teaching second-year algebra students that the harmonic series diverges, and notes some issues in instruction on the concept of limit. A second item describes an approach to a warm-up drill claimed to be painless to construct and self-checking. (MP)

Examples of four interviews are presented to serve as sample evidence in support of more comprehensive diagnostic procedures in assessing reliably and validly the weaknessess and strengths of learners. The search for computational errors is seen to go beyond standard paper and pencil tests. (Author/MP)

Applies the six stages of B. Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive skills to developing a pedagogy for teaching basic writing. (AEA)