Suggests the importance of including emotion and fantasy when a school curriculum is constructed. (Author)

Criticisms that competency training for teachers is relegating teaching to a series of automatic tasks bereft of intellect or creativity. (RA)

Discusses some dimensions of the right to read and the promise of American education to make all Americans literate. (Author)

Reading programs should emphasize the emotional and affective development of the individual. (Author/RA)

Some examples of old and contemporary materials that cause many to support censorship. (Author)

Communications can be improved significantly by checking assumptions and clarifying meanings. (RA)

The secondary school has often served a prepackaged curriculum that ignores the experiences and needs of the students. (RA)

Literacy education in colleges and universities should teach students to handle ideas, not just reading and writing skills. (RA)

Librarians continue their traditional fight for intellectual freedom in the wake of recent censorship moves. (Author)

Schools should not restrict the use of novels designed for the now" generation. (RA)

Mensa is an organization for people with high IQ scores (98th percentile), whose purpose is fostering intelligence for the benefit of humanity." (Author/RA)

Discusses the bombardment of the visual sense with new technological forms of communication. (MF)

A brief description is presented of a school for delinquent boys that attempts to change the student's attitude toward his former educational experiences. The boys, ages 10 to 16, are from the Pittsburgh area. (MF)