In the early sixties, Norman Burns published this article in the Quarterly, giving his views of how higher education would change in the immediate future. That future is now past, and many of his predictions are facts; but many of his worries remain and still require application of the wisdom he set down. (Editor/RK)

Questions whether public education is ready and able to make a creative response to the challenges presented by the new technologies (electronic communications, computers, biological engineering) which are restructuring our society. (NEC)

A collection of humorous anecdotes, poems, and essays written by M. Dale Baughman, who is retiring as editor of "Contemporary Education," focuses on a variety of topics including: (1) humor and the child; (2) the school's role in community life; (3) school administration; and (4) educational research. Also included is an editorial about…

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)

A discussion of the various interpretations attached to term "equality of educational opportunity" which refocuses the debate by suggesting that a more proper formulation would use the term "reduction in inequality" rather than "equality"... Such a formulation implies that public schooling is to reduce handicaps that children face as a function of…

Stressing the importance, difficulty, and inevitability of moral education in public schools, this article asks educators to accept the task as moral educators, to gain insight tnto value conflicts, and to become role models of moral commitment. (DW)

Schools and schooling do more than mirror the society they serve--they mirror the society to be. (MM)

In June of 1982 a Supreme Court decision held that Public Law 94-142 requires only that handicapped students be provided access to specialized instruction and related services designed to provide educational benefit. (Author/JM)

A fictitious American school district provides the setting for model educational and organizational objectives. In an attempt to meet the requirements of the expanded school role, the curriculum includes topical areas such as sex and human relations education, race, international relations, and environmental education. (JN)

A formal conceptual framework for responsibility education is presented, and a range of educational implications are derived. The concept of responsibility education stems from the notion that contemporary social conditions and moral issues are related to three concerns: pedagogy, curriculum, and institution. (JN)

The socialization function of education is examined through a study of how teachers' positions regarding responsibility affect the behavior and attitudes of their first-grade pupils. (LH)

Believe that it is the school's responsibility to assist children to live in the world effectively as a contributing participating citizen. (Author/AM)

A major nuclear exchange between America and the Soviet Union would probably result in the total annihilation of humankind. Social studies educators have a special responsibility to their students to search out all viable alternatives to nuclear deterrence and to make them known. (RM)

Examines the role of education in the Holocaust of Nazi Germany, discusses U.S. nuclear weapons policy and factors of psychological resistance that have limited citizen participation in decision making, and explores the potential of education to help prevent nuclear war. (Author/SK)