Discusses educational issues affected by the conservative right, including church-state separation, school prayer, censorship, creationism, moral education, and humanism. Maintains that a politically powerful religious right threatens the separation of church and state. (Author/JM)

Briefly attempts to answer the preceding article by Welch, Medeiros, and Tate. Maintains that parents are rejecting the "old liberal left" and demanding an education that includes traditional Judeo-Christian values. (Author/JM)

A national survey reveals that, although selection and review procedures can help when school materials are challenged, there is no substitute for good community relations in reducing those challenges in the first place. (Author/JM)

Although some competent paleontologists question the role of natural selection in evolution, they do not question question evolution itself. (Author/JM)

Science textbook publishers, engaged in their own struggle for survival, are catering to creationists. (Author/JM)

A grass roots effort led to the first state-sponsored contest for invention and innovation for children. (Author)

Describes a program in Hauppauge High School on Long Island that has reversed its declining S.A.T. scores. (JM)

Schools in the Houston (Texas) area use training and reward systems to attract and keep bilingual teachers. (Author)

Describes a model for educating students of widely varying abilities in the same classroom by combining a base of common activities and opportunities for special independent projects. (Author/JM)

Students participating in tutorial programs--both as tutors and tutees--show greater cognitive and attitudinal gains than do students who are not involved in such programs. However the common belief that tutorial programs greatly enhance participants' self-esteem appears to be groundless. (Author/JM)

Summarizes some of the major contrasts between talent development and elementary secondary schooling revealed from studying the learning and developmental processes of talented pianists, swimmers, and mathematicians. Interviews were conducted with approximately 25 individuals in each field, their parents, and some of their outstanding teachers.…

Gifted 11- to 14-year-olds from all parts of the country participated last summer in fast-paced three-week programs in mathematics, writing, or science sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. (Author/MLF)

Julian Stanley, director of Johns Hopkins University's Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, heads a national search for those who may become tomorrow's leading scientists. In this interview Stanley tells how students can qualify for the program and offers advice on educating the gifted. (Author/MLF)

Offers tenets to help curriculum developers dodge the "landmines" that ruin curriculum development efforts. (Author)

A flexible approach to curriculum development begins with staff development, uses curriculum mapping, and results in a loose-leaf notebook useful to teachers. (Author)