Discusses the fact that American higher education is an elitist system based on hierarchical selective admissions. (MLH)

Evaluated the different constraints that are threatening the development of educational policies necessary to keep higher education functioning in a fluid manner. (RK)

The conflicts which are the educator's professional task to resolve are discussed in the context of need for change. (JB)

While Communities should unite for positive action, author feels that the schools should exercise some initiative in solving the difficult discipline problem. (Editor/CB)

Statement by the Associate Commissioner for Federal-State Relations, U. S. Office of Education, at a session on this topic at the Second National Aerospace Education Leadership Conference, University of Tennessee Space Institute, June 23, 1971. (Editor/MB)

Excerpts from a discussion between teachers, parents, and students on the subject of parent, teacher, and student responsibility in ensuring a good education for students and their envolvement in educational decision making. (RB)

Included in this article is a statement by the policies commission for business and economic education. Major responsibilities of business educators and strategies for meeting them are set forth. (MU)

This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures concerning school evaluation in primary and secondary education within the OECD countries. First, it provides a typology of the existing systems of school evaluation across the OECD. It encompasses the diverse criteria and instruments commonly used to carry out schools evaluation, as…

International education encompasses: (1) the international content of curricula; (2) the international movement of scholars and students concerned with training and research; and (3) the arrangements engaging United States education abroad in technical assistance and educational cooperation programs. Its purposes are to liberate the mind and to…

The Stull Act requires each district to develop a uniform set of written guidelines for use in evaluating competency of its certified personnel; at this point, advice from the certificated instructional personnel must be considered when developing the guidelines. The chief issue raised by it is, "Should legislators or other lay groups be…

Article considers the policy of decentralization in Israel and the problems of implementation. (RK)

There is a lack of consensus in our society about the educational mission of our schools because society itself is in a period of transition about its own values, and this uncertainty translates to what it wants its schools to do. Also researchers in education have avoided topics that might help to inform public debate on educational matters,…

A TWO-PART STUDY WAS CONDUCTED--(1) A HISTORICAL RECORD SURVEY AND CHRONOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF FRENCH EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM 1815 TO 1962, AND (2) AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER WHAT INFLUENCE THESE STRATEGIES HAD ON THE EDUCATION OF A FRENCH COLONY AND TO NOTE CHANGES THAT TOOK PLACE SINCE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COLONY GAINED…