The article notes the problems in K-3 program content resulting from historical patterns of development in preprimary and primary education. The article suggests improvements in the goals, identification and organization of content, developmental appropriateness of content, acceptance of expanded concepts, and organization for presentation of…

The political and social ideals of Robert M. Hutchins, a president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, are portrayed. His principal philosophical assumptions and their classical liberal affinities are discussed, and some misinterpretations of his proposals for the reform of American higher education are corrected. (LBH)

A review of the parliamentary actions of Lord Advocate James Moncreiff to create a fully national Scottish educational system against the opposition by church groups reluctant to lose control over parish schools and schoolmasters. (SJL)

Explains how the study of educational philosophy is relevant to prospective teachers, in spite of the fact that courses in educational history, philosophy, and the foundations of education have been diminishing in importance in recent years in the teacher education curriculum. Journal availability: see SO 507 421. (DB)

An analysis of the personality, scholarship, and teaching style of Frederick J. Teggart, a respected scholar and lecturer in the social sciences at the University of California Berkeley from 1919 to 1940. (SJL)

Examines 150 years of reading textbooks and suggests that instead of basics educators need a new philosophy to guide schools into the future. (MKM)

Follows curriculum development in the United States over a 70 year period. Special emphasis is placed on special curriculum committees of the National Education Association (NEA), the emergence of the curriculum field, and reform through specialization and standardization. (Author/DB)

Discusses current social and educational conflicts that will continue into the 1980s, including back to basics, competency-based education, tax reduction proposals, special education legislation, energy shortages, inflation, and lack of discipline in the schools. Elementary school social studies is discussed with regard to these issues. (Author/DB)

Outlines a scenario in which the university might lose its credentialing and legitimizing role to industry and then becomes corporate education in its fullest and most complete sense. (Author/IRT)

The proliferation of computer processing applications on college campuses has created new legal risks for higher education institutions. The history of computer use on campuses, an overview of computer law, and a discussion of the role of the university attorney are presented. (SF)

Presents a brief overview of educational practice, priorities, problems, and objectives in China from 1949-1976. Major periods are identified as statism and the schools (1953-55), internal criticism and response (1955-57), the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), readjustment and compromise (1961-66), the cultural revolution (1966), and post-Mao Tse-tung…

Traces the roots of composition instruction to the nineteenth century and shows the origins of many current traditions in writing, as well as describing the first "crisis" in basic skills, which took place in about 1870. (DD)

Social promotion is accomplishing what it was intended to do; it is relieving the various grades of over-age, floundering students. If we are to help these potential failures, we must devise new educational systems. (Editor)

Auditing is an objective examination conducted to determine accountability and the level of management control existing in the operation of an organization. Discusses the different types of commitments required of regional associations for implementing an auditing process in school program evaluation. (Author/RK)

Humanistic and pragmatic views and scientific rationalism formed the philosophical base for educational reform from 1915-29 and for the resulting rapid growth of university extension and its response to industrial development, academic standards, scientific agriculture, immigration, World War I, womens' work/education, and expanded communications…