Article describes an archaeological dig conducted by a group of elementary school students in Milford, Massachusetts. It gave the students a look at the past and a link with the citizens of Milford in yesteryear. (Author/ML)

A Summer project designed to encourage students to read as a pleasurable and profitable activity is described. (MM)

Educational research is seen as distinctive when knowledge claims are set in the context of education so that the relations between educative event, assertion, and evidence is clear. (Author)

Decisions in education concerning the development of children's intellectual capacities, respecting their freedom of choice, and initiating them into democratic values will depend in large measure on the view we hold of the nature of man. (Author)

One methodological moral to be drawn from the article is that learning" as used in some scientific theories of behavior bears little relation to learning" as used in the classroom. (Author/MB)

A study of the evils of oversimplification in ideology. (Author)

It seems clear, even to the most antagonistic opponent of behaviorally defined objectives, that there is quite a bit of empirical work of ultimate value to be done in educational research. (Author)

There are two competing ideologies centering upon the idea of individualization of instruction: one looks to increasing the effectiveness of instruction by adapting it to the traits of the learner; the other looks to releasing the full human potential in each individual learner. (Author/MB)

If empirical studies are to be scientific and of practical value, empirical measurement presupposes theories; these are normative in that they imply conceptions of culture and society. (Author/MB)

The case for using one's schooling successfully in nonschool life may have to be made not on the endurance of memory, but rather on selective forgetting. (Author)

The process of making and testing value judgments is conceived as a modified form of problem-solving in the naturalistic, relativistic tradition of John Dewey and the latter-day experimentalists. (Author)

Authors' aim is to specify the range of activities that may be relevant in determining a peculiarly aesthetic domain for future educational research. (Authors/MB)

Author advances a program for studying human freedom which nonetheless adheres to the criteria for scientific objectivity. (Author/MB)