If inservice education is to strongly affect teacher attitudes, it must be given higher priority and made part of the total package of curriculum improvement in schools. To achieve this higher priority, alternative modes for inservice education must be developed and both universities and school systems must find ways to work cooperatively to make…

An experimental seminar in language was given in spring 1973 at Bowdoin College. The final project was creation, in groups of four or five, of an artificial language. The languages had to have a demonstrable grammatical form, some idiomatic content, and a clear orthographic and phonetic system. (Author/RM)

Describes an experimental program in which a full range of handicapped students were integrated into a junior high school. (IRT)

Describes use of a computerized credit card system for operating photocopying machines at the University of San Francisco. (JG)

Confrontations have arisen between local communities and universities involved in molecular biology research. The situation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is described in which citizens have opposed work undertaken at Harvard and MIT. (LBH)

Author feels that the success of an educational innovation should not be judged on whether it fulfills its promise 100 percent, but on whether it moves education closer to its goal. (Editor)

Originally a speech prepared for the Alabama Consortium for the Development of Higher Education, this is a paper that attempts to test assumptions about non-traditional educational programs and simultaneously to posit alternative approaches that are flexible but still maintain appropriate academic standards. (Author)

A student enrolled in the School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado explains that the program permits study in various ways so that a student may acquire whatever skills he feels are necessary to ensure his employment marketability. (HMD)

Research for Better Schools, Inc., a Philadelphia-based laboratory, has instituted a program, Academy for Career Education, as an alternative to the typical high school. The aim of the program is to provide high school students with actual work experience to help them make rational career decisions. (KP)

The Employer-Based Career Education (EBCE) Model derives from: (1) an alternative for young people who would like their education to be more directly related to life outside school; and (2) a merger of the best aspects of the academic and vocational curricula. (KP)

The purpose of this article is to give a brief, general description of Empire State College, in question and answer form, in order that the counseling profession can gain additional information about this innovative approach to higher education. (Author)

Reports on the positive results of a study in India to determine whether wealthy students were capable of being educated for social awareness and social change. (Author)

Briefly presents the higher education system in England for guidance in innovative experimentation in selected institutions in India. (Author/PG)