Author gives arguments in favor of replacing the junior high school with a completely new way of educating youngsters between the primary and high school years." (Author/SP)

Author, who is Director of Public Information Research for Better Schools, Inc., reports that with Individually Prescribed Instruction children are eager to return to class, learn, and even take tests. Since teachers are no longer fact givers they, and the principals, are able to be more responsive to students' needs. Bibliography. (AF)

Discusses factors the author considers drawbacks of IPI: 1) The strong emphasis on sequence; 2) The validity placed on diagnostic tests; 3) The determination of 85 percent correct responses as a major criterion for determining success; 4) Discussion and interpersonal skills are not developed. (Author/AF)

Attempts to define and meet the needs of adults being served by Adult Basic Education programs. (Author/LF)

Describes a new program at Temple Buell College in which courses are designed around specific behavioral objectives, students progress through courses at their own rates and credit, but no grade, is assigned upon completion of the course. (AA)

Describes the reorganization and renovation of an American Indian boarding school. (AN)

Describes an informal experiemnt designed to compare an eighth grade earth science class in an open learning environment to traditional classes. "Open environment" students gained about the same number of points on an earth science cognitive test as the "traditional" students. The individual activities of students in the open class and the…

A program that individualized the learning of concepts, skills, and attitudes usually taught in typing, office practice, and office machines. (Author)

Adapting to the needs of a socially, economically, and culturally changing neighborhood was the aim of a parish school in Milwaukee. (MF)