Despite problems of growth, the newness of junior colleges permits activities that might otherwise be stifled by tradition. It fits the trend toward making education relevant to individual community needs. It can make improvement of education a continuing process by doing research on how to facilitate learning and applying it to teacher training…

We must know more about adult education, why people enroll, who they are, and what they expect; we must develop new and better techniques for serving them; and we must define the role of government. Some have proposed a National Center for Lifelong Learning, which could interpret data on adult education and serve as the instrument in developing a…

Although State and local governments fill a strategic role in the area of education, the Federal government provides leadership in research and development and financial support. Federal financial support should be broadly allocated in three basic ways: (1) Designated block grants which give each State maximum flexibility, (2) categorical aids for…

U.S. Commissioner of Education Allen, in an address to a group united in their effort to eliminate reading failure in the United States, said that volunteers are needed to sustain the additional person-to-person, specialized help that will determine the ultimate success of the Right to Read program. Brief mention was made of various roles…

In a country beset with confrontation and division--some of it over the quality of education--educators should consider as a basic need, the right of every student to read. With taxpapers concerned about the cost of education, educators need to make certain that present allotments go to priority needs, which surely include alleviating the tragic…

The time for real change in education is here--and it must be a change that is basic--in line with new perspectives on national purposes. (Author)

From the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

One principal set of obstacles preventing public education from having shown more progress in realizing the national objective of equal educational opportunity has to do with the way schools are financed. Resolving problems of school finance is, U.S. Commissioner of Education Allen says, an absolute essential in achieving equal opportunity. Some…