Switzerland is a country where the cantons are autonomous education authorities and where support given by the central government only covers a very small percentage of the cost of adult education. (Editor/RY)

Advocates a futures approach to government policy making and educational leadership, recommending a heightened awareness that future outcomes and conditions depend on decisions and actions taken now. Suggests a more concrete alliance between government and education, focusing on public policy goals and research as a model for general education.…

The recently retired head of the Education Commission of the States talks about accomplishments, disappointments, and some puzzlers for his successor. (Editor)

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…

Three principles concerning children's intellectual rights are proposed and discussed. The principles are: (1) intellectual rights of children include access to ideas and freedom of expression; (2) denial of rights on the basis of lack of competence requires empirical justification; and (3) denial of rights on the basis of lack of competence…

Requirements of a comprehensive approach to adult and continuing education in Quebec are set forth, with particular attention to individual and social needs in a changing world as well as to short-and long-range educational objectives. Proposals are offered for serving the unemployed and other groups, reshaping content and methodology, allocating…

Emphasizing five variables of particular importance to vocational education, the article describes the youth unemployment problem, what is currently being done to combat it, what vocational education can do to help, and what the government can do to help. (BM)

Chairman of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on education discusses three trends-growth, modernization, and a continued interaction with other disciplines-unfolding in vocational education. (HD)

Author, Associate Commissioner for Federal-State Relations, U. S. Office of Education, discusses government's role in fulfilling society's need for an educated citizenry. (MB)

A federal role in education has developed in response both to constitutional requirements and national problems that transcend the scopes or the rescources of state and local governments. (CJ)

Education should be responsible for giving the student a deeper appreciation of cultural and aesthetic values as well as a better understanding of ethical and moral precepts underlying society. These responsibilities are often unfulfilled because of the failure to teach basic reading, writing, and communication skills at the elementary level and…

Three steps to aid in educational planning and decision-making are listed: (1) Identify the major future developments--societal, technological and environmental; (2) Obtain forecasts on the probability of occurence of these developments over time; (3) Suggest candidates for specific educational reform measures which seem promising enough for…

The construction and staffing of a permanent Education Forum in Washington is advocated as a focal point for the sharing of information from research, policy studies, and administrative activities in many fields affecting education. It could achieve the immediate public results that a separate Department of Education, whose creation is beset by…