Urges greater involvement of international students and professors in social science education. (MS)

Specific games are described which may contribute to a program of education for peace, by deepening children's insights and feelings of affinity to people of other countries. (NH)

Author stresses the great need for each teacher to use all of the available resources along with his own fresh look at the child in his situation in order to discover the meaning of the child's behavior from the child's own point of view. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the difficulties in trying to estimate which instruments yield dependable information about children and the misconceptions surrounding testing. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the effect recordkeeping has when it is designed to assess children's problem-solving and thinking processes over time. (Author/RK)

Discusses the meaning of accountability and its implications for the child, who becomes involved in educational programs that are designed as a result of that evaluation process. (RK)

Considers the procedures of scientific validation as they apply to open education and one promising effort to develop behavioral objectives for the social and affective domains. (Editor/RK)

Article takes a critical look at several of the approaches that have been developed to assess children's progress. Testing, they say, is not sufficient as a method of evaluation. (Author/RK)

Describes a human relations oriented curriculum, encompassing and transcending traditional subject matter divisions; an experimental summer program in California is discussed. (SP)

Using behavior modification as an example of educational innovation, author shows that school systems are inherently unable to sustain innovation, in curriculum or methods, over a long period of time. (SP)

Author reviews excerpts from her book of the early 1940's, My Country School Diary, from a modern perspective, and finds the situation today essentially the same; teacher and student must start from where they are'' and develop from that point. (SP)

Adaptation from the keynote address to the Association for Childhood Education International Annual Study Conference held at Denver, Colorado in April, 1972. (CB)

Sixteen books for kindergarten through sixth grade were chosen and reported on at the Annual Study Conference of the Association for Childhood Education International, held in Denver, Colorado, April 1972. (CB)

A male kindergarten teacher spells out ways he is learning to communicate with as well as to parents. (Editor/CB)

Article calls for a closer look at the evidence from research indicating that a positive self-concept contributes positively to a child's reading ability. (GB)