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Discusses the role of textbooks in the low attainments and ignorance of school-age American youth in important concepts. Characteristics features of Science textbooks; Poor quality of social studies and history textbooks; Need for better textbooks which cover subjects in greater depth.

Focuses on the report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress on the performance of young Americans in various school of subjects. Progress of Black and Hispanic students in the basic skills of reading and mathematics; Achievement in mathematics by American students; Performance of students in the subject of literature and the U.S. history. INSETS: What Schools Can Do;A World of Differences.

Presents the author's views on new frontiers in American education. Purpose of education in the U.S.; Impact of knowledge and understanding of religions, literature, music and international economics on American students; Exploration of new approaches in subject-matter discipline by scholars.

Focuses on the information learned by students of Grizzly Hill School, Northern California about the Far East by tracking and communicating with a cargo ship bound for Yokohama, Japan. Response of students involved in the process; Communications received by students from the ships; Other topic of discussion for students.

Focuses on reports from National Assessment of Educational Progress revealing the low attainments of American students compared with those in other developed countries. Effect of social conditions in the low attainments of students; Importance of education for students; Low quality of professional training for educators.

The article presents the author's views on the ancient embalmers' art. The article presents information on the author's views on the ancient embalmers' art. The author visited a few secondary schools whose teachers regard modern education as a species of institutional degradation. In consequence of this experience, he no longer takes interest in the competence of the ancient morticians of Nile. In various traditional high schools he encountered nearly as many mummified relics of once living past as he saw in the exhibit cases of the Egyptian Museum. According to him there is a place for embalmers in the modern community, but that place is assuredly not the American high school. American pupils are going to live today and tomorrow--not yesterday--and they must be educated accordingly. This can be done only if the curriculum is kept thoroughly alive. Mummified materials can never turn the trick.