Characterizes membership and policy-making role of the largest teachers' organization in France, the Federation de l'Education Nationale. It represents 44 specialized educational unions. It supports the socialist party but has identified itself with the traditional way of administering education in France. (Author/AV)

This report on some efforts being made in France to improve the education of the socially and culturally disadvantaged is presented for such value as it may have to American educational planners in their search for solution to this difficult problem. For the purposes of this study the term "socially and culturally handicapped or…

In 1971, the French National Assembly adopted new legislation on Technological and continuing education which attempts to bridge the widening gap between classroom and career by extending effective career education to greater members of French citizens. To interest students in technological and vocational education and to dispel the prejudices…