The Center for Vocational Education at Ohio State is conducting a survey to locate career development services for adults, and the article gives several examples from the 100 programs already identified. (Author)

Business has assumed central position in discussions concerning education, and it is the duty of large organizations connected with business and the labor market to become actively involved in these questions and to participate in development work. (Author/BP)

What nursing really needs is a theoretical framework--but first it needs a conceptual one, descriptive rather than predictive. (BP)

The author hopes that, during the last quarter of the twentieth century, teachers and administrators of elementary and secondary schools will attempt the kinds of curriculum reform that will identify career opportunities related to every topic in every subject of the school curriculum as well as to student hobbies. (Author/BP)

Organized labor needs to play a larger role in the decision-making process of education. Education, a necessary condition for social change, can perpetuate outmoded attitudes to the point of social stagnation and general studies can be the place to break the cycle. (Author)

The article describes a planning model developed by the University of Nebraska for specialized distributive education programs at the postsecondary level that collects data from two sources of information--prospective students and potential employers--to determine the need for such programs as floristry, hardware marketing, advertising, and food…

The author criticizes the way educators brand students who have learning problems, group them under one label, and treat them as though their problems were homogeneous. The author illustrates his argument by a brief introduction to black English and how it relates to this problem. (Author/BP)

A recent feasibility study showed broad interest in accreditation among a number of organizations which provide continuing education for adults. The Continuing Education Council, devoted to the improvement of continuing education through accreditation, has been established. (MW)

Condensed from "The Massachusetts Teacher, Volume 48 (January 1969), 10-11, 24.

Address given at sectional meeting of the Speech Association of America (Chicago, ILL., December 30, 1968).

Summary of authors' M.S. theses, University of Maryland, 1968