A Statements about Schools Inventory was used to assess the attitudes of teachers and students about the degree to which alternative and conventional high schools meet the needs in Maslow's hierarchy. Results showed that alternative school environments are more conducive to the satisfaction of basic human needs. (SK)

Presents and evaluates three possible futures of traditional universities in the face of the onslaught of budget-cutters and technophiles: (1) ultimate-digital-McLuhanism; (2) modest digital infusion; and (3) stalled revolution. It is concluded that--however refined and elegant the technological tools become--they must subordinate themselves to…

Today varied notions of good teaching are mired in fruitless, "cheesy" debates over traditional versus progressive philosophies. On the "Velveeta" side is John Locke, who viewed children as a "tabula rasa" (empty slate). On the brie side is Rousseau, who emphasized freeing the child as "noble savage." The…

Globalization and the revolution in technological communications are major forces of change in higher education. This environment, when coupled with the needs of adult learners and the rising costs of tuition at traditional colleges and universities, has stimulated the emergence of for-profit, degree-granting higher education in the United States.…

From a spiritualistic point of view, this discussion offers a vision of education for the 1980s focusing on the restoration of formal teaching and the revaluation of the school. Emphasis is given to exploration of relationships between personal autonomy, intelligence, teaching, learning, and an epistemologically based curriculum. It is argued that…

Children from open and traditional classrooms were matched for IQ, sex, age, grade and then administered reading and creativity tests. Results showed the high IQ, traditional students had high reading and creativity scores. (DEP)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the alternative school on high school students' attitude toward school, career expectations and aspirations. (Editor)

Not all mentally retarded children need special classes. However, school board members and superintendents should be aware of the districtwide implications of this trend to integrate certain handicapped children into the traditional classrooms. (Author/WM)

The author suggests that the traditional, classroom form of school organization is ineffective for learning and that it wastes valuable school resources. (Author/DN)

The Defining Issues Test (DIT), which utilizes the moral development stage theory of L. Kohlberg, was administered to 41 students from an upper middle class school district in Pennsylvania. The scores of students who elected to attend the alternative high school were compared with the scores of students who elected to attend the district's…

The self-contained classroom tends to emphasize achievement of basic skills, while the open-concept school emphasizes attitudes and feelings. A brief historical review presents the history and explains the philosophy behind the open-concept school. This is followed by a review of the literature and an analysis of the present status of the concept.…

The educational and social heritage of India has limited the development of creative spontaneous minds needed to meet the changes of the 20th century. The formal, irrelevant education, confined to the earlier years of an individual's life may only prepare him for a minimum of seven to 15 years of work during his adult life. Because India presently…

Measures of attitude, academic achievement, and social and personality variables were employed in a year-long evaluation of progress and outcomes of open education and traditional education groups. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant function techniques, using means of teacher ratings as the "success"…

This report describes a conference co-sponsored in April of 1972 by Educational Facilities Laboratory and the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, in which 35 educators met to seek ways of making secondary schools healthier, happier, more productive places for young people. The point was made that since America has produced a new…