Instead of attempting to manufacture assembly-like solutions to educational problems, it is necessary to search for, study, and capitalize on the natural potential and growth facilitating capabilities of good teachers and good classrooms that already exist. (EH)

Article discussed the state of Hawaii's efforts to provide equal educational opportunities for exceptional children and a suit brought on behalf of all exceptional persons. (Author/RK)

Attempts at change in education have been largely unsuccessful, producing only superficial change because of inadequate needs analysis, unsound implementation plans, insufficient training in the use of innovations, and failure to involve practitioners in the decision-making process. (HMD)

This keynote address before the 46th Annual Mid-Year Education Conference sponsored by the University of Northern Colorado emphasizes that change is the one constant of education in America and notes the career education concept as a promising change. (HMD)

The factors which affect the output of school systems can be measured in poor nations as well as in rich. Data produced by these kinds of studies can be integrated with the kinds of data normally manipulated by educational planners in order to produce policy recommendations that focus on output. (HMD)

Reports on a study of the interaction between the concept of Growth Units (the neighborhood as the building block for future development) and educational needs and the subsequent design criteria development. (Author/EA)

Too often persons working with handicapped individuals focus on what they cannot do rather than identifying and developing their special aptitudes. (GW)

Uses an expanded definition of assessment, drawing attention to those elements of a planning system that are closely interactive with assessment and which could either immediately precede or follow the data collection function. (Author/JF)

The author of an article suggesting that disadvantaged children be provided with special educational services offered learning disabled children offers his rebuttal to five responses. (DB)

Questionnaires were sent to the superintendents of all school systems in Mississippi requesting information concerning the projected need for school psychologists in their systems over the next three to five years. (Editor)

No one would disagree that delinquency and more violent crimes are increasing in the nation's schools. To combat the grim statistics, this author has some concrete suggestions. If your school is considering alternative programs for the alienated, here are some pitfalls to avoid. (Editor)

The retiring adult education director of the South Orange-Maplewood Adult School, Maplewood, New Jersey, expresses some parting thoughts. (AG)