The conflicts which are the educator's professional task to resolve are discussed in the context of need for change. (JB)

Despite gains in educational development in the Soviet Union, much still remains to be done before the structure and systems equal that of this country. (JB)

The need for change in the philosophy of education underlying programs for deaf children is noted. (GW)

General Education is viewed as education for life and improvement in one should stimulate improvement in the second. (JB)

The report of La Commission des Sages appeared on June 15, 1972. The ten educational principles on which it based its work and its eighteen recommendations are translated here. (Editor)

Outlines standardized excuses offered by administrators resistant to change, and offers alternative solutions'' to counter the excuses. (SP)

Brief summary of recent trends and emerging problems. (SP)

The investigator was able to name three factors which describe why adult students pursue continuing education classes: (1) personal educational/economic factor; (2) personal self-development factor; and (3) personal convenience. (Author/CJ)

Proper and successful drug education must involve a specially trained classroom teacher and an honest coverage of all drugs in context. It must demythologize drugs and provide positive alternatives to drug use. The more we make going to school, and life itself, a mind-expanding experience the less likely people are to turn to drugs for their…

Administrative apparatus should be geared to support an innovative climate, offering to work with teachers, teaching them to think creatively, and thus innovatively. (Author/JB)

Some problems of research and teaching in the field of ethnic studies include: 1) lack of awareness of the current social meaning of ethnicity; 2) data deficiencies; 3) lack of sensitivity to problems of scale in spatial analysis; 4) the separation between teaching and research; and 5) limitations imposed by discipline-bounded viewpoints. (Author)