Highlights from research on electronic learning indicate that computers can improve learning, motivate children, and increase socialization among children. Computer software will continue to be developed in ways that will help students learn. (MLF)

School districts can integrate computers into the curriculum by accounting for the following variables in their planning: (1) revision of district learner goals, (2) adjustments in instructional priorities, (3) selection of hardware and software, (4) staff development needs, (5) expected technological advances, and (6) systematic review of the…

Successful supervisors share a characteristic of "authenticity," rather than a particular pattern of behavior. From a background of Gestalt psychology, four steps are offered to help supervisors become aware of their own needs and feelings and recognize the "shoulds" that prevent real contact with others. (MLF)

Ralph Tyler answers questions about his work in educational evaluation during the past 50 years and identifies the major problems in education today as educating disadvantaged children, improving the transition of youth into constructive adult life, and rebuilding the total educational environment for children. (MLF)

An instrument developed for selecting students for gifted programs on the basis of performance and behavior opens up opportunities for interested students to demonstrate their capacity without any taint of elitism. (MLF)

Despite differing opinions on discussing nuclear policy in the curriculum and how students are best prepared for citizenship, educators can work together to assert the right of United States citizens to have access to information necessary to participate in the policymaking process. (MLF)

A national organization of teachers, parents, and school administrators is organizing chapters around the United States to find the best ways to teach about the issues related to nuclear education, to develop new materials, and to research the effect of new curricula on students. (MLF)

Educators and students, discussing the future of nuclear age education at a symposium, generally agreed that knowledge and values are separated in society. Sources of information and of the proceedings are listed along with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD) resolution on nuclear freeze. (MLF)

The challenge to educators is to structure the problem of preventing nuclear war by examining how such a war might start and specific routes to prevention. (MLF)

Criticizes John Goodlad's book "A Place Called School," claiming the conclusions and recommendations are questionable because of a limited review of the literature, a lack of student achievement data, and methodological problems. (MLF)

John Goodlad, author of "A Place Called School," responds to Hersh Waxman's critical review by claiming Waxman takes terms out of context, ignores the author's caveats, and critiques what the book is not, contrary to everything the author says it is. (MLF)

Using the varying perspectives on bilingual education concerning the status quo of students, the future of society, and curriculum methods and delivery systems, the author examines the events and opinions that have shaped the history of bilingual education from the mid-1960's to the present. (MLF)

A summer program provided a range of health and school activities for entire families of the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Indian community. Both students and their parents improved in learning assessments and in attitudes toward school. (MLF)

A special type of meeting between a new school principal and the school staff resulted in clarification of concerns and expectations, reduction of stress, and establishment of the new leadership. (MLF)

After reviewing technological and social changes in society and drawing on the work of Teilhard de Chardin and other philosophers, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration executive challenges educators to show humans the way to a better integration of intellect and intuition and greater unanimity on ethical priorities. (MLF)