A recent controversy regarding ability grouping is that it is often perceived as a means whereby racial or class bias can be subtly transformed into mechanisms of discrimination which exhibit the appearance of fairness and objectivity. This article addresses the question of fairness in ability grouping. (CJB)

The growing differences between rich and poor nations effects the world's poor more immediately, but rich countries are vulnerable to resultant problems. This article faults American educational systems for not adequately addressing the nature of global dilemmas or their solutions. (DF)

Discusses the responsibility of educational systems to make students computer literate and the need for teachers to be trained adequately in computers and in hardware and software selection. (JOW)

This well known writer credits the free, un-castebound structure of education in the United States for allowing him to achieve his full intellectual potential, but warns that increasing social inequities threaten the society's fundamental virtues. (GC)

Mastery learning strategies and criterion referenced measurement tools perform a selective function in the classroom. The selective approach within the philosophical role of schools is discussed in terms of limited educational employment, competition, talent distribution, and the suggested attributes of good testing. (CM)

A teacher of handicapped children discusses how praise and patience have helped her students overcome learning and behavior problems and voices the conviction that disabled children should be mainstreamed as soon as they show evidence of readiness. (PP)

With positive leadership, the present period of austerity offers an opportunity for educational advance. Educational administrators need to develop dynamic organizations that are flexible and capable of monitoring their educational efforts. (Author/WD)

Future research is needed, not in the school, but in the society in which the school's conduct is determined. This is shown by behavior analysis, from which much has been learned to transform educational practice with assurance of desirable outcomes. (Author/GK)

Educational practices should strive to avert the catastrophe of nuclear warfare by communicating a sense of the reality and accessibility of peace. Educators must be responsible to all mankind for the values they hold and teach. Humanization should be the goal of curriculum development. (PP)

Summarizes social changes of the last 20 years which have influenced educational change. Suggests that educators should see new needs as interrelated. Attention should be given to the development of skills for coping with change and understanding increasing interdependence. (Author/KC)

Physical education should be considered a basic component of education since it contributes to the total development of the individual. However, physical education objectives have not been reached, in spite of research supporting the goals and a large percentage of students participating in physical education programs. (JN)

Leadership skills for the twenty-first century learning environments include the abilities to: (1) view the future; (2) cope with stress; (3) select, maintain, and provide growth for staff; (4) manage instructional systems; (5) be humane and create humanistic learning environments; and (6) communicate with business, labor, and government leaders.…

A fictitious American school district provides the setting for model educational and organizational objectives. In an attempt to meet the requirements of the expanded school role, the curriculum includes topical areas such as sex and human relations education, race, international relations, and environmental education. (JN)

A formal conceptual framework for responsibility education is presented, and a range of educational implications are derived. The concept of responsibility education stems from the notion that contemporary social conditions and moral issues are related to three concerns: pedagogy, curriculum, and institution. (JN)

The educational design and development process begins with external considerations--the requirements, current and future, for individual and collective self-sufficiency in society. A model is presented. (Author/MLF)