University level faculty committees' communication patterns in academic policy making are studied. (CH)

Problems were encountered in designing an illustrated program on contraceptive techniques for India's rural population where illiteracy is high and hundreds of different languages are spoken. Field trials of a picture program indicated the ability to "read" a picture is an acquired skill. (Author)

The press has a definite relationship to the proper function of a school board, and the board has an obligation to foster and promote that relationship. (Author)

Describes a training program designed to utilize talent and increase group communication. (RK)

Summarizes a report that is strongly critical of the lack of effective communication between educators and the public. (Author)

A male kindergarten teacher spells out ways he is learning to communicate with as well as to parents. (Editor/CB)

Article addressed to preschool teachers, day care workers and Head Start personnel, who are called upon more and more often every day to help identify potential handicaps in the young children they serve. (Authors)

Article is a dialogue between a high school principal and a parent that tries to define the role of the teacher in the educational system. (ML)

Describes SEL's three major programs and three auxiliary projects, all of which are aimed at alleviating educational deprivation. (LS)

Author suggests three changes in campus governance to end the present disenfranchisement of faculty, deans, trustees and presidents: (1) Realignment of authority among campus constituencies; (2) improved communications; and (3) decentralization in governing and managing processes. Adapted from paper presented at National Conference on Higher…

Schools are too relevant in that they resemble and reflect the patterns of values of society. New school environments are needed which should make the school less relevant to society; use cool" rather than hot" media, in the McLuhan sense; and re-examine the use of the time and space as communication media. (DE)

Article discusses different approahes to speech communication problems in education. (MM)

Various types of translation problems in cross-cultural research are translation of questions or other verbal stimuli, vocabulary equivalence, equivalence in idiom, grammar, syntax, and back-translation. (Author/SB)