Educational history verifies the importance of institutional embodiment of reforming ideas but too little attention has been paid to the need for it in planning for educational development in the last two decades. (Author/JB)

Founder of a "deschooled" school, Mrs. Davis sees no future for colleges unless they are dismantled and a new form of learning permitted to exist. (Editor)

By recognizing the expanding dimensions of education's responsibility and by designing appropriate patterns of finance and structure, the educational system can weather its crisis and achieve flexibility. (Author/SP)

Reviews educational responses to accelerating world change. Educators must be concerned not only with students' knowledge about major world events but also with their ability to see from a global perspective and to cope with the uncertainties and frustrations of the future. (KC)

Schools cannot be held responsible for the state of the Canadian economy and have limited ability to affect labor market outcomes. Some would argue that schools should not focus on preparation for work but on learning about work. (JOW)

No one sector has the right to abdicate its responsibilities in educating children. Schools should focus on the educative tasks that are rightfully theirs. Structures and curricula should be overhauled, and teachers need to understand how culture and ethnicity influence academic and social behavior. (SK)

This report examines reasons for the varying estimates of illiteracy in the United States. It discusses why the agency charged with transmitting literacy, the public school system, has not satisfactorily accomplished this task and recommends improvements to reduce and eradicate illiteracy. Part 1 focuses on the confusion about the extent of…

In its modern sense, adult education in Japan began after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Until 1945, adult education functioned as an agent to indoctrinate the nationalistic and military ideology. Since World War II, Japan has adopted the democratic social system and has become a capitalist society like the West. In Japan, social education is the…

Discusses the proposal of establishing a Department of Education (DOEd), and the possibility of transferring the entire Educational Directorate of the National Science Foundation to DOEd. Argues that this action will be detrimental to the interests of science education and might have adverse effects on research. (GA)

A review is given of (1) the history of education as providing stability within populations, (2) the role of the university in an industrial society, (3) the need for education and society to interact fruitfully, and (4) the need for secondary education to prepare individuals for continued learning as adults. (AV)

Discusses the general findings of the Carnegie Commission Report on major educational issues of the last decade, and the HEW Report (by Paul Newman) on funding for postsecondary education as they apply to higher education for business. The concept of systems accountability, and suggested methods for dealing with it and the changing educational…

Author stated that if community colleges are going to meet the educational responsibility implicit in inviting students into their schools, they must readjust their curriculum to match the needs and realities of these students. (Author/RK)

Describes how Massachusetts is overhauling its approach to the education of handicapped children. Discusses how things used to be, the push for change, and a new Massachusetts law that assigns to local school districts the responsibility for special education. Explains how to get education legislation drafted and enacted. (Author/DN)

Author stresses the need for greater inclusion of the arts in a university curriculum and suggests an outline for making universities into creative enterprises. (RK)

Contains text of a speech presented at one of eight 2-day regional forums which discusses the contribution industrial arts should make to a total program of education. (Editor/SB)