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Turlington, Ralph D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Compares the results of the first and second years of testing in the Florida minimum competency program to show that the program is working. (IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Descriptions, State Programs
Herndon, Terry – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
The comprehensive public sector labor policy based on the private sector system is valid. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Teachers
Shanker, Albert – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Offers arguments for teacher unions and collective bargaining in education. (IRT)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Employees, Teacher Associations
Perkin, J. R. C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Uses four images of the key to discuss the role of the teacher in influencing students. (IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Teacher Relationship, Teacher Influence, Teacher Role
Feldman, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Three changes must be made if more students are to be served by programs for the gifted: the concept of giftedness must be broadened, a shift from a trait to a developmental view of giftedness is needed, and whatever concept of giftedness is embraced, it must be fundamentally nonelitist. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Students
Hendrixson, Linda L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Provides information on the extent of teenage pregnancy in the United States, describes programs for pregnant teenagers in New Jersey, and offers suggestions for change in the way the problem of teenage pregnancy is being handled. (IRT)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Pregnant Students, Sex Education
Hodges, Walter L.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Presents an analysis of sponsorship as that concept has developed since 1968 in Project Follow Through and discusses the future of the sponsorship concept. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Intervention
Munday, Leo A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Compares outcomes of the 1970 and 1977 weighted standardization samples for the subtests of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. On the whole, achievement appears to be consistent between tests for the fourth- and eighth-grade students and no one basic skill shows marked gains or losses. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Test Results
Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Examines the implications of such suits as those filed by Firestone and Sears challenging the manner in which civil rights legislation is being enforced by the federal government. (IRT)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Bruce, Michael G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Examines the effects the downturn in the European economy is having on education and employment of young people in Western Europe. (IRT)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries
Mavrogenes, Nancy A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Describes the language skills gains made by elementary students who have been in Latin classes in schools through the country. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, FLES
Alschuler, Alfred; Flinchum, Betty – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Describes a program employing "social literacy" that resulted in improved reading and mathematics scores (on the Stanford Achievement Tests) for eighth- and ninth-grade students in one junior high. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Junior High Schools, Program Descriptions
Yatvin, Joanne – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Describes a successful meaning-centered writing program and the evaluation program used to judge its effectiveness. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Program Descriptions
Cheek, Earl H., Jr.; Cheek, Martha C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
An evaluation of the content of three basal reading series show that they are changing with the times. Current readers are less likely than older readers to show sex and racial stereotyping and no longer show life as always happy. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education
Anselmo, Sandra – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
A survey of Iowa elementary principals reveals that they believe that all children would benefit from group prekindergarten programs but do not favor public provision of such programs. The principals also do not believe parents can provide the opportunities for educational development that prekindergarten children need. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Preschool Education, Principals
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