Asserts that one way to find creative teaching solutions to age-old problems is to attend the Virginia Master Teachers Seminar. Describes the experiences, friendships formed, and techniques learned at the seminar that allow teachers to present the same information to students in different ways. Outlines other useful insights provided at the…

Reviews the positive effects of participating in a faculty seminar on writing across the curriculum. Notes that writing must extend into subject area courses but that the curriculum must also be brought into writing courses. (JT)

The author discusses what he considers to be the weaknesses in Federal support to schools. (SGM)

Charts the process by which, over some 10 years, one reader came to read a particular text "with full understanding." Indicates how crucial in that process were the complex, interacting influences of other, simpler literary texts, of the reader's own life experience, and (paradoxically) of "family" experience not consciously available to that…

Argues for the study of popular female authors of the Victorian era on two grounds: (1) issues concerning Victorian female writers are relevant to problems in Victorian literary scholarship and to discussions about the relationship between literary theory and feminism; and (2) their works were printed on acid paper. (TB)

Claims that exhortations about the need for "computer literacy" have much in common with longer standing debates about literacy itself; that both kinds of discussion usually rest on a serious misconception of technology and its roles in history; and that the issues can be best understood by situating them within the evolution of the present…

This article describes Project Access, a program at Southern University (Louisiana) designed to recruit, retain, and train speech-language/pathology students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Seminars that explore speech and language disorders of diverse populations were added to the required curriculum. Students receive support in…

Traces the development of South Dakota's four publicly supported technical institutes and five tribal postsecondary institutions, all established during the mid 1960s to early 1970s. Notes that the technical institutes remain under local administrative control. Discusses future trends of vocational education in the state. (JDI)

Examines the opinions of Fred Newton Scott concerning language usage and asserts that Scott was on the side of the scientific descriptive linguists in asserting that questions of usage cannot be legislated. (SRT)

This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the library of the Bureau of Education during the first quarter of 1927, January to March, inclusive. The last preceding list in this series of records was issued as Bulletin, 1927, No. 2, and comprised publications received by the Bureau of…

Discusses how students' strained metaphors and odd juxtapositions in writing literary analysis papers can reveal fresh perspectives on the literature being studied. (DD)

Summarizes the findings of three government reports dealing with the associate degree. Reports on trends in associate degree conferrals, fields of study in which degrees were awarded, economic benefits of the degree, and increased recognition of the degree. (DMM)

Discusses factors involved in the decision to use electronic media in educational marketing. Explains the use of public service programing and paid commercials, including the information needed from the station, the possibility of in-house production, and methods of choosing the medium and air time to purchase. Mentions alternative media and…

Highlights the rationale for and outcomes of integrating service learning into two public speaking courses. States that service learning enlarged the classrooms and created a wealth of communication examples and opportunities. Judges the success of this pilot experience on five criteria: community voice, orientation and training, meaningful…

Argues the need for explicit rules for the use of critical terms, and provides four such rules. (DD)