Basic tips on techniques especially helpful to new teachers are listed. (MJL)

School administrators can work to develop leadership competencies in department heads, including the ability to encourage and assist fellow teachers. Suggestions for further reading are offered. (MJL)

The success of public education is threatened by retrenchment and a decline in public confidence in the schools. Schools must improve their capacity and image, but an understanding of the linkage between public education and a free, upwardly mobile society is a necessary basis for greater support. (MJL)

The proposed Instructional Technologist Model is based on a closed loop feedback system allowing for continuous monitoring of teachers by expert instructional technologists. Principals are thereby released for instructional evaluation and general educational management. (MJL)

Literature treating the influence of cultural differences on learning style is summarized and educational planning recognizing individual learning styles is called for. (MJL)

This essay spans past, present, and future using an etymological search, which reveals that the root of reading was interpretation, that writing was originally magic, and that arithmetic referred to counting. (MJL)

The quality of classroom teaching would improve if teachers were provided with the same level of asssistance as football coaches. (MJL)

Current scientific and technologiical issues should be incorporated into more active classroom, laboratory, and extracurricular learning so that students can perceive the future as personally relevant. (MJL)

After citing literature contending that science education is exclusive, academic, and devoid of inquiry orientation, this article gives principals suggestions for improving science education and making it available to all students. (MJL)

Home economics can help students deal with social problems, learn to cope with their lives, make sound judgments, get along with family members, and manage their resources. Guidelines are given for implementing the new, socially significant home economics. (MJL)

The instrumented team approach at St. John's High School, South Carolina, succeeds in getting general students to meet serious intellectual challenges because group learning counters the problems of poor reading ability, fear of failure, absenteeism, limited time, and underestimation of the importance of school. (MJL)

Procedures are outlined for teaching writing as a step-by-step process. (MJL)

Modern geography instruction should contribute to multidisciplinary global studies by making students aware of human modification of the earth's environment and of the relationships between human behavior, culture, and the natural habitat. (MJL)

Based on empirical evidence that nearly all students can learn most of what they are taught, mastery learning is recommended as a teaching strategy with the goal of maximum development of student learning potential. The implementation of mastery learning at one junior high is analyzed. (MLJ)

This article argues that present youth are inarticulate, that oral communication is a vital competency, and that programs in aural and oral skills should be implemented. (MJL)