Considerably broader in scope than the usual cooperative education project, the Community Learning Program at a Florissant, Missouri, high school exposes students to the widest possible range of skills and professions in the area. (Author/MLF)

Excerpts from a study of curriculum laws and regulations and how they are perceived by teachers and administrators in the states of Texas, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and California. (Author/MLF)

Guidelines to reduce the preparation time for talks advocating various specialized types of education; otherwise known as 28 tips on how to sell whatever is the latest thing. (Author/MLF)

Proposes discarding conventional history and geography classes and including community involvement and social studies courses that speak to the personal needs of students and assist them in grappling with contemporary political and economic problems. (Author/MLF)

Results of a survey show considerable support for students learning the "basics"; however, there is even greater support for students becoming good citizens, having a good self-image, being self-confident, and exhibiting proper health habits. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the needs of gifted students and their teachers as well as the characteristics of a good program for gifted students. (MLF)

Teachers are discovering simple, effective ways to help blind and partially sighted students ease into the mainstream of regular classroom learning. (Author)

When faced with budget cuts, a region of the District of Columbia public schools undertook a massive training program to make up for reduced supervisory services. (Author)

The Learning for Mastery approach is clearly more effective than traditional instruction, but individualized programs are better than group-based ones. Students master more objectives with mastery learning because their level of participation is higher. (Author)

Research evidence shows that mastery learning is much more effective than conventional methods; however, it is not yet known whether it works equally well for all kinds of learning and for all kinds of students. (Author/JM)

Having established that mastery learning works, researchers are beginning to investigate components of the system and theorists are integrating it with other recent trends. (Author)

Chicago's mastery learning program takes into account the complexities of reading and the realities of urban classrooms. Its designers say that if a program does not lead to success, it is not a mastery learning program. (Author/JM)

Briefly describes a comprehensive reading program based on the ideas of mastery learning. (Author/JM)

Although teachers sometimes view mastery learning approaches skeptically, members of the business community are committed to helping spread these approaches. (Author/JM)

In Denver, principals train and supervise their teachers as they plan and teach mastery learning units. (Author/JM)