The United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's goal of achieving 100 percent international literacy by the year 2000 led the United Nations General assembly to proclaim 1990 as International Literacy Year. This proclamation was linked to the formulation of a plan of action to assist member states in all regions of the world…

An experiment involving 30 sixth graders with learning disabilities in mathematics tested the hypothesis that participation in goal setting enhances achievement outcomes. Ss received subtraction training that included instruction and practice opportunities over several sessions. Some Ss set proximal performance goals each session, others had goals…

A disturbing trend is developing in higher education which may jeopardize the quality and importance of the classical tradition in education. This trend is exemplified by demands that the liberal arts be made relevant and comprehensible to the student and that they be related in some way to the search for a good job. The great classical…

The major elements of the industry-based planning process can be successfully applied to the development and implementation of international projects in educational institutions. International education programs share the following fundamental structural elements with business and industry: they compete in the market place, and exist by managing…

The keynote address before the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) Central Division Conference is presented in this publication along with a series of reports reflecting the activities of the CCHA for 1983-84. In his address entitled "Born Again Humanities or Here Comes the Sun," Landon C. Kirchner discusses the incipient…

The author discusses the status and role of foreign languages in general, and French in particular, in the German educational system. (Text is in German.) (TL)

By concentrating on minority needs and management problems, American educators have lost sight of their responsibilities to the nation. What is needed is honesty and self-confidence on the part of colleges and universities to assert their variety of qualities. (Editor/PG)

Faced with mounting criticism, a professor suggests that universities show that they still care about the respect, dignity, and worth of every individual. (Editor)

Article investigated the role of the marching band and the proficiencies required by its members. (RK)

Described the contribution of a preschool treatment program for multiply handicapped children and how the approach may be adopted by others. (Editor/RK)

The factors which affect the output of school systems can be measured in poor nations as well as in rich. Data produced by these kinds of studies can be integrated with the kinds of data normally manipulated by educational planners in order to produce policy recommendations that focus on output. (HMD)

The article treats two central doctrines of behaviorism, namely, peripheralism and associationism, as doctrines which place semantic and syntactical constraints on acceptable language for the discussion of human beings, and assesses the consequences of these doctrines for the description of educational goals and methods. (Author)

Author presented a comparison of two countries' councils of education; how they work and what they do. (Editor/RK)

One of higher education's foremost iconoclasts reflects on the nature of an education appropriate to a community of free men. (Editor/PG)