Describes the evolution of national educational assessment in the United States, its present stage of development, methodological and reporting problems, and approaches applicable to assessment data. Examines how proposed approaches can be applied in the California Assessment Program and in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (MJL)

Discusses elements of the National Institute for the Advancement of Career Education: the need for such an institute, areas of concentration (instruction, leadership, development, research), and how interested persons can cooperate in the institute. (CT)

Describes the cooperative nature and content of Greek agricultural education and training activities and the efforts made to integrate cooperative studies into the national educational system. (CT)

Comparisons are made between environmental inservice training programs for United States' governmental personnel and similar programs conducted in four Western European countries. The programs, in general, were found to lack an emphasis on environmental training and environmental considerations and values. (DC)

Examining literacy and adult education in the United Kingdom (U.K.), this issue is divided into four parts: (1) Introductory Survey, which discusses the U.K. experience in adult literacy; (2) The Provider, which presents agencies involved in adult education; (3) Resources, which describes the Adult Literacy Resource Agency; and (4) Learning…

The Courses by Newspaper program provides a vehicle for scholars to present critical issues to an audience of nearly 5,000,000 newspaper readers. The program also links with educational television and radio to serve as a catalyst in the development of noncredit courses. (SK)

Presents a survey of the current state of documentation practice in museums, concentrating on the broad themes of the practice, and making comparisons with analogous library procedures where appropriate. Current developments on an international and national scale (18 countries) are reviewed, and a 326-item bibliography is included. (Author/JD)

Discusses the controversy surrounding the initial decision to establish, and the current decision to phase out, the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC), a computational chemistry center jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. (CS)

Discusses four basic goals for adult education policies in Finland as defined by the Adult Education Committee. These goals are (1) increasing equality of educational opportunity, (2) developing vocational skills; (3) developing skills in dealing with questions in society, and (4) developing personality. (JOW)

Describes the endeavor by the Chinese Communist Party to construct a community-based, urban welfare system that would cater to the needs of urban dwellers who were not under the protection of the workers' social assistance system or whose needs could not be met entirely by it. (CT)

Reverend Sullivan emphasizes the seriousness of the youth unemployment situation and issues a strong call for extensive legislative programs, private sector commitment, and massive revamping of the educational system to motivate and encourage young unemployed people. (SK)

The National Inservice Network projects are concerned with the multiple facets of delivering in-service education and training of regular educators to teach handicapped students. (Author/SBH)

Describes the decline of foreign language study in the United States and lack of a national language policy. Encouragement has been fostered recently by the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies Task Forces. (JMF)

Describes the difficulty in reading and writing Persian script which may contribute to illiteracy in Iran and notes the political and religious considerations which make change difficult. (MKM)

A national cataloging service, where all U.S. libraries would contribute according to their strengths, is proposed as a replacement for the Library of Congress as the main provider of cataloging data and controller of bibliographic information in North America. Areas of standardization and quality control are discussed. (Author/MBR)