Demands on education will come from society's claims and students' needs. Society's claims, including more literate graduates and better student performance, indicate education needs to be more efficient. Student needs involve student problem-solving abilities, quality of student life in school, and recognition of out-of-school experiences. (RW)

The diversity in college admissions policies is described and the relationship between these policies and admissions testing is explained. The consequences of government regulation of testing is discussed. Colleges are urged to defend their autonomy in admissions and to act responsibly in that respect. (Author/AL)

The author discusses the 31-year history of the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A. (AEA) and examines several of its features: the influence of group dynamics, role of the volunteer, and the AEA's redefinition of the role of knowledge-based agencies as agencies of adult education. (CT)

The scarcity of college courses dealing with disarmament is noted, and educators are urged to address the question of arms limitation. Military and economic factors which limit the ability of the United States to continue the arms race are listed, and plans for reversing the arms race are discussed. (PP)

Career education cannot ensure successful career development growth without appropriate policies and action. Finding solutions to problems confronting career education in Canada is one approach to improving the quality of life. Educators and policy makers must go beyond present commitments to create initiatives for the improvement of Canadian…

The assignment of responsibility to the educational institution and its agents eliminates moral responsibility from society. The key concept of responsibility is examined and its moral applicability to institutions refuted. A direction to be taken to reinstate moral responsibility in society is proposed. (JN)

Anticipatory leadership, which is action based on the forecasting of alternative futures, can solve many of the educational system's current and future problems. Effective resource management, a form of anticipatory leadership, can solve social, political, and educational problems of the future. (CJ)

While public schools recognize a responsibility for educating the pupil for a citizenship role, they fail to participate in the second most usual role--that of being a parent. Pros and cons in the case for including parenting education in school curriculums are presented. (DS)

Considers the negative, second-rate image of community colleges, contributed to by three inconsistent practices. Suggests ways of improving this image through expanded efforts to disseminate information at national and state levels. Identifies several challenges facing the community college with respect to student recruitment and development. (AYC)

Recaps major criticisms of the community college and predictions made in "Dateline '79" (Cohen, 1969). Plots trends for the 1980s, envisioning five distinct institutions: the resurrected secondary school, educational broker, rapid response college, and certification and satellite centers. Forewarns community colleges not to neglect their basic…

In an examination of higher education's role, uncertainty alone is believed to afford freedom to continue the quest for truth. The belief is affirmed that it is possible to be uncertain, accept no closed system of thought, and at the same time possess a constructive faith. (Article originally published in 1951.) (AF)

Uses jazz improvisation as a metaphor to focus on three interrelated aspects of ethical responsibility according to Emmanuel Lavinas's theories: (1) passivity; (2) heteronomy; and (3) inescapability. Discusses some ways in which reframing responsibility and subjectivity along this line might offer new possibilities for conceiving subjectivity and…

Argues for the importance of Emmanuel Levinas's work for re-opening educational questions. Addresses the problem of remembrance as a question of and for history, as a force of inhabitation, as an inheritance we are obligated to live within, that intertwines with our sense of limits and possibilities, hopes and fears, identities and distinctions.…

When the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) decided to remove the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) from its list of censured colleges, an opportunity was created for VCCS colleges to examine anew the status of academic freedom. The 1972 decision to abolish tenure within the VCCS had been viewed by some faculty as a direct…

This examination of the international state of giftedness research outlines two competitive paradigms (the psychometric paradigm and the paradigm of cognitive science) and argues that the paradigms should be regarded as complementary. The neglect of social psychology in the conceptualization of giftedness is decried, and applied and basic research…