This position statement from the Conference on College Composition and Communication begins with a "foundation claim": in all situations calling for writing assessment, the primary purpose of the specific assessment should govern its design, implementation, and the generation and dissemination of its results. It describes 10 assumptions about…

Article considered some recommendations made by the Task Force on Economics in Career Education to the Governor of New Jersey on the style of economics teaching and student awareness of economics needed in the public schools. (RK)

Reveals the need for social studies programs to make a more realistic approach toward helping the student understand his civic role. (RK)

A number of statements of various analytically-derived output and support goals appropriate to secondary schools were submitted for evaluation, as ideal school goals, to a sample of teachers drawn from ten comprehensive schools. (Author)

Outlines a student developed volunteer program, which encourages decision making and roles that are meaningful--a community experience in which youths and adults work as partners. (RK)

Open door education attempts to bring into the learning situation a previously untapped student population, one that is drawn from economically deprived and politically disenfranchised central city residents. (Author/RK)

Presents psychological theories by four major learning theorists for the aid of teachers and other specialists in decision-making processes. (Author/RK)

Discusses the philosophical underpinnings of alternatives to public education. (Author/RK)

Teachers of reading must fully appreciate the two concepts of reading: (1) a skill acquired only through formal reading instruction, and (2) the result of a natural emergence of language development. (Author/MB)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Provides research dealing with the school as an organization and offers an alternative development strategy based on the studies. Shows previous research was either functionalist or structuralist in approach. Research describes the school as an organization in terms of professionalism or bureaucracy. Additionally, it is described as a coercive…