Claims that educational planning has largely ignored the need for rational approaches to goal elimination and program curtailment. Presents criteria to guide goal selection and discusses the setting of optimal target levels. (Editor)

Describes a project to encourage communication between adult education programmers and an example of its utilization in one community. (SP)

A principal of an alternative school lists and elaborates on imperatives for developing an alternative school program. (Editor)

This paper sorts out the kinds of information policy makers need at the community level, suggests ways to acquire kinds of information especially relevant and difficult to obtain, and indicates the range of options open to communities in developing day care programs. (Author)

This paper presents a historical review of applications of effort-reporting in medical education, comments on key methodological issues and describes a revised methodology of a 2-step estimating process that is flexible enough to accommodate a multidisciplinary medical education. (Editor/PG)

A look at how a series created by KLVK in Las Vegas, Nevada helped community residents to accept school integration. (AK)

A force field model application for improved effectiveness." (Editor)

Presidential address, annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 26, 1972. (FF)

Discusses the objectives of the Council of Adult Education, especially the need to work with a national organization. (SP)

A national movement seeks to strengthen family life by encouraging the schools to educate students for good parenthood. (Editor)

A new self-awareness for the American Indian and a new approach to the educational system are outlined in this proposal by The Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians. (FF)

Some of the persisting community relations problems of school districts probably can be attributed in part to the failure of school people to recognize that laymen are neither able to understand nor willing to accept what they consider to be strange goings-on in the schools'' simply because these are endorsed by educators. (Author)