Evaluates Neville Bennett's study of "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" which is being used to support a return to formal methods of instruction. (DD)

Discusses ten questions writing teachers should ask themselves to determine whether they are effective teachers. (DD)

Reason and evidence provide little, if any, justification for the belief that minimum competency testing will help poor students to learn or poor teachers to teach. (Author)

The use of a homemade device that assists in quick recall of number facts is described. (JT)

A program that is used to assist students in overcoming the deficiencies in basic skills in mathematics without making major changes in existing mathematics programs is described. (JT)

In response to the challenge to teach basics, schools can choose among a number of alternative ways of giving the word "basics" a local definition. Discusses five guidelines for interpreting "basics". (Author/RK)

The current trend in education today is "back to basics". Where, then, does this put music, which is not one of the traditional three Rs? Author makes the case for music education suggesting that music educators must sell music education "now" not only in existing programs but in relatively untapped and unexplored areas such as music for the aged…

A knowledge of myth, legend, and folklore will help children understand allusions, their cultural ancestry, and themselves. (DD)

Provides a walk through a model "essential" high school belonging to the National Coalition of Essential Schools. These schools feature the basics carefully integrated into a few subject areas, teaching across the curriculum, pedagogical variety, materials matched to different students, insistence on mastery, cooperative problem-solving,…

In a survey of 48 state supervisors of home economics, 20 indicated that secondary students in their state could gain academic credit through study in home economics. Ten supervisors stated that there were curriculum or materials developed in their state to support home economics as part of academic credit. (CH)

E. D. Hirsch responds to the critique of his article on the need for cultural literacy. He insists that teaching traditional content is socially progressive. (Author/MD)

Offers suggestions on how to use the newspaper to teach students how to follow directions. (SRT)

This teaching example shows how to use students' own experiences to help them learn social studies terminology. The example must be told as a story spoken to the class. The teacher's responsibility is to guide and facilitate the students' presentations. (JDH)

Children entering public school in an English industrial urban area were identified for inappropriate learning behavior on the Guide to the Child's Learning Skills. A follow-up of the subjects at age 7 shows that progress in basic skills is strongly associated with pupils' learning styles. (Author/CH)