Author says that science courses that develop contempt for and hostility toward science are doing more harm than good to many students, and calls on curriculum makers to see that respect for the scientific method is engendered by translating it from the lab to life itself. (Editor)

Technical Education division session is reported from the American Vocational Association 1971 annual meeting. (MU)

It would seem necessary for the teachers of the disadvantaged to create a learning environment which accentuates the positive aspects of his needs and characteristics, and minimizes the negative oppressing aspects of his life - a non-threatening, positive reinforcement." (Author)

The purpose of...this article will be to consider, first, the types of behavior control currently available to man; second, that type of behavior control most significant to educators at the present time; and third, the ethical implications involved." (Author)

A former Secretary of the Interior discusses the need for an educational program to create an environmental awareness and a desire to improve the environment. (AA)

Materials science" is concerned with the interrelationship of properties, environment, and structure. (Author/IR)

Discusses four points of interpretation concerning the 1981 legislative act on special education: (1) the concept of special educational need, (2) the place of formal procedures in the provision of special educational help for the child, (3) the formulation of the child's special educational needs, and (4) the choice of special provision. (RH)

Consumer education teachers should be responsible in teaching the areas of "good" and bad" consumption patterns. In relation to this, "wealth" includes food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education; "nealth" refers to snacks, carbonated beverages and candy; and "illth" refers to tobacco, gambling, alcholic beverages, pornography,…

Author delineated a specific method of evaluation based on transactional analysis - one that is applicable to conflict situations. (Editor/RK)

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION IN THE UNITED STATES IS MOVING TOWARD GREATNESS BECAUSE OF AN ACADEMIC REVOLUTION THAT EMBRACES CHANGING TECHNOLOGY, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT LIFELONG LEARNING IS A NECESSITY, AND A REALIZATION THAT THE PUBLIC IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY WELL INFORMED. MOREOVER, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE TENDING MORE AND MORE TO ENLIST THE AID OF…

AS A MAJOR SOCIAL INSTITUTION THE SCHOOLS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCEPTING THE "MONUMENTAL" CHALLENGES POSED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. IN RECENT YEARS TRENDS WITHIN THE WHITE ESTABLISHMENT HAVE UNDERMINED HUMAN DIGNITY AND EQUALITY. FOR EXAMPLE, ESTABLISHMENT-CONTROLLED ENFORCEMENT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL HAS MADE IT ONLY A SYMBOL OF WHAT IS…