...Nothing could be more exciting than learning about the splendor of our earth with its great diversity of attractive and ingenious human beings." (Author)

Argues that education must be a continuing process throughout an individual's life span, taking place in the family, school, and community. (AJ)

Discusses goals of the Office of Child Development and describes some OCD experimental projects now in progress. (AJ)

Reports on the growth of tutorial programs in which children learn through teaching. (AJ)

An example of cross-age teaching is described in this account of a fourth grade class' adoption of a kindergarten class. (AJ)

Describes cross-age tutoring experiment in which sixth graders provided individual help and companionship to first-graders. Tutor gains were subject reinforcement, extended creativity, and meaningful personal relationships. (AJ)

Explores the importance of encouraging children to play with language, to use it as an art medium, to experiment with sounds and words, and to extend meanings. (Author/AJ)

A kindergarten teacher narrates her classroom experiences with terror-stricken Spanish-American children after a devastating tornado. (AJ)

Urges educators and parents to arm children with the tools to master the codes of the new media (film, television, radio, photography) to enable them to activate, understand and control their media environment. (AJ)

Understanding the differences in values that differing cultures attach to play may help educators (1) to clarify the role of spontaneous play, (2) to recognize the limitations of competitive play, (3) to better balance directed and spontaneous play, and (4) to view play as absorbed, joyful, educative activity. (Author/AJ)

As many as one-third of our children, who are sometimes labeled nonretarded exceptionals," are being shunted off to special classrooms or if in a regular classroom are neglected and even ignored by the teacher. (Editor)

Describes an internship program to help student teachers develop sensitivity to environmental influences on children from minority and poverty cultures. (NH)

Suggests classroom materials and activities which, in the absence of male teachers, may be used in preschool and primary classrooms to provide male sex-role models. (NH)

Describes the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, a program in which a professional writer works closely on a long-term basis with a particular group of public school students and their teacher. Object: to encourage children to write creatively, out of their own experiences, about what is real to them. (MG)

School systems can adopt a preventive approach toward improving mental health ofits students and staff, through supportive services andindividualized programming. (NH)