Faith and Farm, a Christian church organization, sponsors apprenticeships to encourage young men to learn innovative agricultural skills from older successful farmers. A high proportion of the apprentices go on to be successful farmers themselves. (MF)

America needs a National University which will award external degrees, provide all supporting services, and thereby vastly expand opportunity. (EB)

In a crash program to prepare ghetto residents to take the Civil Service Clerical Examination and the High School Equivalency Examination, an unorthodox method of instruction has been developed which is based on the kind of grammatical problems that appear in the tests, how the examination materials are presented, and which of those problems…

Educational research has not accomplished all it should because it has failed to communicate its ideas to the right people. (RA)

A number of public libraries are conducting innovative programs to provide improved library services to users. (AB)

The author suggests several stages to be considered in long-range planning for educational reform and comments on some of the aspects of needed actions. (AA)