Presents rationale for including business history surveys and seminars in the curriculum of the contemporary business student. The approach is a pragmatic response to the need to expand and diversify history departments. Also, major corporations are good sources of corporate history and archival programs. (Author/KC)

Describes project to assist social studies teachers in teaching about national and international laws as they operate in a global age. The project provides inservice training, collection and dissemination of existing curriculum materials, and identification of community resource persons. (Author/KC)

Presents answers of Alvin Toffler (author of "Future Shock") to questions about a variety of issues, including problems of schools today, the role of formal education in the future, forms of community participation in schooling in the future, and ways in which social studies teachers can help prepare their students for the future. (DB)

Describes a series of exercises which were developed to teach the basic methodologies involved in analyzing and evaluating the effects of alternative public policies. The exercises, intended for use on the college level, deal with determining causation in policy analysis, finding optimum choices with different probabilities, and finding an optimum…

Describes a teaching approach developed to teach theory to sociology students on the college level by means of intensive student preparation and participation in the works of theorists. Strengths and weaknesses of the method are outlined. (Author/DB)

Editors of 227 weekly and daily newspapers who responded to a questionnaire indicated that journalism schools should increase the number of hours required of their students; teach more grammar, spelling, and punctuation; require internships; and broaden journalism training to include photography and layout. (TJ)

Analyzes and contrasts Mill's "Autobiography" and Adams'"The Education of Henry Adams" in order to present two approaches to the nature of education and of failure. Maintains that their perspectives may serve as catalysts and cautions for contemporary theories of education and its utility and relevance. (CAM)

Discusses sources and implications of the quantitative expansion of the system of higher education in Germany, which altered the character and structure of the university. Suggests that the quantitative expansion will be followed by a qualitative one. (KC)

Discusses newly established German regional institutions of higher education and conditions necessary for their growth and expansion. (KC)

The article discusses the rationale for the provision of services to the severely handicapped and the characteristics of the services provided. Five concepts of essential service provision are described in the context of the following age groups: infancy, preschool and elementary years, secondary school years, and postschool years. (PHR)

Examines published statements by reading experts, deploring their use of educational jargon and their omission of references to the reading of literature; notes the power of literature in encouraging children to read enthusiastically and voraciously. (GT)

Identifies dimensions relevant to grouping intellectual disciplines and identifies problems with establishing interdisciplinary criteria. Major difficulties include arriving at an appropriate level of description which neither describes a topic too generally nor too specifically and determining whether the comparable features of two disciplines…

Discusses role of intelligence, strategic surprise, and intelligence estimating in foreign policy and international relations courses on the college level. Hypothesis is that the case study approach, generally used to introduce foreign policy classes to intelligence failures, doesn't stress the relationship of policy to intelligence and the need…

Illustrates the need for revising elementary level social studies curricula along the lines of topics (areas) of interest to a child--home, school, community, nation, and planet. To help teachers develop curricula to meet particular student and class needs, the article suggests that an activity/content chart be kept reflecting content analysis,…

Cautions that there is too much wishful thinking and fanciful rhetoric in citizenship education in the United States today and too little room for objectives that are feasible and acceptable to students. Suggests that citizenship education should include a study of the following principles--rational ignorance, rational voting, representative…