The author, responding to an article in the April 1980 "Educational Leadership" states that he has not found any indication that the Kotter syndrome (from the television series "Welcome Back, Kotter") is a key to educating disadvantaged students. (Author/MLF)

Various approaches to supervision can be grouped into three models categorized as nondirective, collaborative, and directive. Supervisors should recognize stages of professional development and treat teachers as individuals. (Author/MLF)

Recognition referral emphasizes students' positive, rather than negative, contributions. Use of this method appears to make a substantial impact on the attitudes, behavior, and self-concepts of students. (Author/MLF)

Describes characteristics of successful problem solvers and reports programs at all educational levels designed to help students improve their skills. (Author/MLF)

Results of the second mathematics assessment show that students are alarmingly weak in problem-solving ability. (Author)

In his new book, Reuven Feuerstein explains the program he has developed to improve human ability to learn and to solve problems. (Author/MLF)

Explains how the instrumental enrichment program helps adolescents and adults develop higher order thinking and problem-solving abilities. (Author/MLF)

An inventor, who is also a patent lawyer, has developed a step-by-step process to teach students to invent solutions to problems. (MLF)

Discusses the type of fragmentation taking place in the curriculum, examines some of the forces causing it, and considers the educational effects. (Author/MLF)

Contends that curriculum fragmentation does not exist, and that unless children develop a command of the details of any given body of knowledge, they will not be able to use their powers of critical and creative thinking. (Author/MLF)

Across the country the arts are blending into other parts of the curriculum, as well as being valued on their own, with help from government, foundations, corporations, and community art enthusiasts. (Author)

Eliminating history and geography courses will not improve the social studies program; better teaching will. (Author)

The Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) program revolves around a series of tests regularly administered to students with immediate feedback to students and teachers. (Author/MLF)

A study shows that in classrooms where teachers are simultaneously considerate and less structured, success of the disadvantaged student is the rule. (Author/MLF)

Curriculum reform should recapture meaning in education, return childhood to children, and emphasize exploratory activity and analogic cognitive processes. (Author/MLF)