Author considers various strategies to upgrade education in individual school districts, and to implement recent innovations in education. (GB)

Downes, Wolf D. Fuhrig, J. Warren Brinkman, and John Noonan offer the four essays which make up this article, viewing law, order, attitudes, and education's contribution to effective action. (JB)

Discusses the changing work ethic and the role of the public schools, the junior colleges, and the four-year colleges in educating adults for careers. (Author/SP)

The primary contribution of adult education in a democracy, before all other purposes, is civic education. Reluctance to facilitate citizen understanding of problems and participation in solutions leaves adult education on the sidelines. (SK)

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);…

Changing expectations and demands upon teachers imply that teacher training institutions need to revise and improve their effectiveness. (JD)

The political and value structures involved in the change process for achieving peace are discussed. Suggestions for achieving the social change needed for peace which are related to education involve an emphasis on conflict resolution techniques and the capacity to analyze a culture in terms of its values. (KM)

Society's organization of educational experience in the form of schools is a device for the improvement, acceleration, and continuation of learning. (Author)

The University of Redlands established Johnston College as a relatively unstructured environment designed to help students recognize, develop, and use their own inner resources and self-motivation. (Editor)

The next quarter century should be a time where colleges and universities serve as models to society in finding creative, positive ways of making this period of cultural transition, reflected so clearly in current student values, one of the most significant eras in the history of higher education and this society. (Author)

Considers the issues of governance, purpose, and techniques of influence which plague all of higher education. (Editor/IR)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

The family is no longer an effective transmitter of many important kinds of knowledge. As a result, many of the family's traditional functions have been taken over by other social agencies. From this perspective it seems certain that comprehensive sex education programs will soon become a reality in our schools. It is imperative that a positive…

This report deals with the problem of encouraging colleges to engage in educational research. More specifically, it concerns itself with questions such as: What is the present role of the small college? What roles can small colleges most effectively play in the continuum of research needs? What resources are necessary for playing these research…

Article deals with the question of making adult education relevant in a vocational sense without slighting any of the basic skills. (GB)