This collection of papers was compiled as background information for participants in the 1968 Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education. The 10 papers focus on the academic community of the future, and ways of being responsive to change while preserving valuable continuities. John Caffrey relates the present community to the future…

Author discussed some shibboleths whose acceptance by college faculties has caused their institutions to promote change that harms the educational environment. (Author/RK)

Presented is a discussion of what is wrong with schools and what is needed to overcome this; who is making educational decisions; and the need to remember to make decisions that are best for the children. (DS)

A statement by the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education. (Editor)

This document contains 13 papers presented by specialists in the philosophy of education. The papers presented were: (1) "Plato's 'Philosopher King': Position Impossible" (V. C. Morris); (2) "The Rhetoric and Reality: Current Research Emphases Concerning Educational Administrative and Organizational Behavior" (E. J. Van Meter);…

The Institute for Educational Leadership works with a volatile combination--legislators and educators--and with results that show both the better for it. (Editor)

Using the example of parent involvement with schooling, recommends that reading educators identify and adopt those educational policies that are most important for reading and communicate their findings outside the educational community. (AEA)

Discusses the survival of colleges and universities as dependent on public support. (PG)

Recent trends in the development of the community college make it seem inevitable that its institutional freshness and promise will be squandered. It will neither ameliorate the problems of those excluded from opportunity through public education, nor break through the bureaucratic, self-sustaining rigidity of public education. (DM)

WHETHER A COLLEGE STANDS IN RELATION TO ITS STUDENTS AS A PARENT TO A CHILD (IN LOCO PARENTIS) OR AS A PHYSICIAN TO HIS PATIENT (IN LOCO DOCTORIS) CAN BE VALIDATED BY STUDENT PERSONNEL WORKERS BY ANSWERING THE QUESTION, "IS THIS RELATIONSHIP NECESSARY AND DESIRABLE IN ORDER FOR THE COLLEGE TO PERFORM ITS MISSION, WHICH IS LEGALLY THAT OF…

Members of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) have been deeply involved in re-creating America's educational system to prepare it for the new century. They have been strong advocates and effective partners in designing and implementing standards-based reform, supporting higher quality professional practice in the classroom, more…

Analyzes why, as the process of decision-making has been centralized by school bureaucracies, and as professional educators have gained power, public education has become a closed social institution neither accountable nor responsible to the citizens it serves. (JM)

Discusses Bush administration's plan for education, building on/adding to Reagan emphases: maintenance of high visibility on federal agenda; preference for unrestricted federal grants-in-aid; parental choice for school selection; excellence versus equity; state versus federal authority; view of education as instrumental to achievement of other…

Contends that members of an institution must agree on common purposes if it is to survive with significance. Questions to ask are, "To whom is the institution responsible?" and, "What should we be doing to carry out our responsibility to these groups?" (JT)

This paper considered different conceptions of compulsory education as embodied in the education laws of different countries. An analytical tool was developed for the comparison of these laws in order to learn the implications of the obligation they impose and the measures required for the discharge of the legal obligation. (Author/RK)