Presents a method for increasing the effectiveness of reading programs and extending reading instruction by teaching content area teachers in the school system. Bibliography. (RW)

Reprinted introduction from a report made available at the Southwest District AAHPER-California AHPER Conference, Spring, 1969. Program developed under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (Author)

A plan to improve individualized instruction at the elementary and secondary level is presented. (CK)

Research supported by the U.S. Office of Education.

Describes a self-paced, computer-managed course on internal medicine for medical students at the University of South Dakota. The rationale for using a computer-based system is outlined, and the program is evaluated for cost-effectiveness, currency of information, curriculum goals and objectives, and student attitudes. (EAO)

Describes management, evaluation, and advantages of a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) approach with third-year students in engineering mathematics. (JN)

Reviews the background, development, and structure of the Open Tech Programme--a new British experiment in open learning--and compares it with the Open University with respect to their aims and methodologies. Funding and quality control are also discussed, and some advice is offered for other countries contemplating similar developments. (EAO)

Hails the potential that mainstreaming of the handicapped holds for developing individual potential and enhancing equal educational opportunity, but cautions that extensive retraining of staff and diversification of teaching strategies will be necessary if adequate implementation of Public Law 94-142 is to be achieved. (GC)

Describes the implementation of a competency-based individualized and mediated vocational training system, designed to attract and train native Saudis for an increasingly industrialized Saudi Arabian workforce. (SK)

Describes individualized instructional systems as products of the same sociohistorical forces that have redefined work and individualism. Presents an analysis of individualization based on one year's ethnographic observation of an elementary school and points to the specific roles played by schooling in advanced capitalist structures. (Author/MLF)