The post-World War II rehabilitation of large numbers of psychologically deprived and socially maladjusted teenaged war orphans and/or concentration camp victims in Israel was carried out within normal group structures. (Author)

Describes a program in which creative work is the key to integrating blind retarded children into a world where they have a place. (Author/JF)

Discusses Piaget's theory of child development. (JF)

Describes the process by which a small elementary system (Windsor, Connecticut) combined Individually Guided Instruction and open education. (Author)

Defines teachers centers as physical facilities within a school where teachers can meet on a voluntary basis to share ideas related to their professional and their personal lives. Provides a how-to-do-it guide for teachers interested in organizing the community of learning and sharing that teachers centers make possible. (Author)

An interview with Arthur Bill, who has made Pestalozzi Children's Village a laboratory for the study of integrated education and thesearch for community. (Editor)

Among nearly 40 States attempting to apply the accountability principle to school operation by legislative fiat, Michigan is clearly a leader. This exhaustive study reveals disturbing defects in Michigan's plan, particularly in the assessment component. (Editor)

Today's revolution in communications has made a shambles of the traditional English curriculum. Here is a nonprescriptive exegesis of what has happened. (Editor)

There is considerable naivete regarding the similarities between progressive education and open education. Discusses these similarities and differences. (Editor/JF)

Drawn from John Downing's original report, "What Can We Learn from Other Countries About Reading and the Use of Language?" Describes the three strengths of the British reading instruction as compared to similar programs in other countries: child-centered approach, the relative importance of learning to read in a child's total development, and the…

A teacher of teaching methods reflects on the trauma of his own introduction to teaching young children. (Editor)

It all started when Maude Frumpter, widow of the millionaire shoelace king, visited Summerhill. A skeptical interviewer gets the story from Freedom Hill's director, Dr. Ivan Insight. (Editor)

Perhaps what is needed for the entire educational system is to find and utilize a special group of people to operate nontraditionally at all levels within that system. Perhaps that group of people should have a special name -- what about teachers? (Author)

In their respect for tradition, educatiors have failed to learn how to face crises realistically, to analyze them for deeper underlying factors which past generations have overlooked. This article deals with such overlooked learning factors. (Author)

Inflation may force teachers to take extreme measures in the fall of 1974. If a strike is coming, the inevitable nastiness can be reduced through careful planning. (Editor)