A February 1973 report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education (California) is the source of this study of adult learning needs. (Editor)

Discussed the responsibility of the school in providing broad programs of physical activity in elementary and secondary schools. (RK)

Article described the why and hows of an innovative Special Education diploma program, which prepares teachers to work with children who are blind, deaf and mentally retarded or some combination of those handicaps. (Editor/RK)

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Dropout rates and employment problems are subsiding in Memphis due to a career education program started under Project SPAN in twenty target schools. The program evolves from grade one through high school and includes such things as field trips, films, speakers, work study programs, computer assisted career information, and job placement. (DS)

Based upon the success of three smaller radio study campaigns, a program for a preventive health campaign was planned to directly improve the lives of Tanzania's rural inhabitants. Elements in the campaign included: a national coordianating committee, radio programs, printed materials, trained study group leaders, leader's manuals, and…

Argues that the cumulative effect of early non-school related influences indicates that concentrating too heavily on school intervention may perpetuate the schools' ineffectiveness and reduce the possibility that school intervention will effect the child's academic achievement or development of skills needed to break the poverty cycle. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this essay is to provide guidelines for curriculum development in the occupational cluster designated by the Center for Occupational and Adult Education of the Office of Education as "the fine arts and humanities." (Author)

Discussed talent search programs and their objectives, such as finding disadvantaged students who, with developmental assistance and financial support, could profit from additional education and training, and then counsel these students and help them find academic admission and occupational placement. (Author/RK)

Article described a plan to develop integrated study through music activities. Students learned to become more independent learners while concentrating on more complex and creative activities. (Author/RK)

Article described the potential the music program has and the challenge it faces for the music specialist in the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Considered how music can be integrated in the open classroom through Project Quest, a program designed to utilize student interest in music. (Editor/RK)

We need new approaches to prepare vocational teacher educators with characteristics and competencies which may be quite different from traditional programs preparing educators as specialists in a single vocational service area. Included in a new approach, along with teacher flexibility, should be comprehensiveness, integration, and coordination of…

The author relates rules of program development to skills development courses, emphasizes the importance of familiarization with the job for which the training is intended, discusses the types of instruction available for program presentation, and discusses some specific uses of audiovisual materials and tests. (AG)

Article discussed a project that was initiated to gain insights into the views and assessed performances of former students who completed their work for the Elementary Credential during the 1970-1971 academic year. (Author/RK)