The Carnegie Foundation commissioned a collection of essays as part of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Essays and essayists represent six disciplines that are part of the CID: chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience. Intended to engender conversation about the conceptual foundation of doctoral…

How can the triumph of Western liberalism be reconciled with the pictures of chaos, war, crime, terror, and poverty which continue to appear in the daily news? Does violence coexist, in a significant fashion, with capitalism and democracy? What role does education play in this context? In addressing these questions, this paper presents a framework…

There is a class of largely ignored children for whom the crisis in American education means total noneducation or miseducation. The author examines a limited constitutional right to education which can be invoked to protect these neglected children. (Editor)

Discussed are approaches to the education of emotionally disturbed children including reality therapy, directive teaching, assessment, and the engineered classroom. (DB)

An overview of population trends and the attitudes and efforts toward effecting a change in those trends. (JB)

a discussion and listing of the 18 goals of education endorsed by Phi Delta Kappans. PDK ranks reading, writing, speaking, and listening as number one and the proper management of money, property, and resources as 14th in importance. (Author)

Description of attempts to coordinate efforts to furnish higher education to a population living in scattered islands.'' (Editor)

Looking beyond the election, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education assesses national needs and goals. (Editor)

This article reviews Arthur Comb's and Charles Reich's views on awareness and authenticity in relation to the open classroom structure. (MM)

After reviewing the need for administrators to plan in order to be effective decision-makers, the writer presents a model of the planning process to stimulate improved efforts in educational planning. (Editor)

From a paper given at the NAHE Conference in Seattle, Washington, October 20, 1972. Directions necessary for the Humanities are discussed. (JB)

Summarizes the results of application of the Environmental Education Act, identifies weaknesses, and suggests modifications to be made in the Act when it is considered for renewal in 1973. (AL)