Chapter 1 in Life Skills in School and Society.

Rebuttal to a statement by the Educational Policies Commission (Music Educators Journal, October 1968, p27) concerning the role of fine arts in education.

Needs assessment is the most commonly used procedure for assessing the worth of educational objectives. The authors believe this method is a survey of wants, rather than needs, of various groups. It does not establish that such wants ought to be fulfilled. It lacks a principled basis for carrying out its strategy. Four basic assumptions are made…

This bulletin states the physical education objectives of the Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools and lists specific goals for children from kindergarten through the eighth grade in physical education. (JD)

This bulletin states the educational objectives of the Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools and outlines specific goals in the health education program for students from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. (JD)

This study discusses and evaluates the Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) planning model for goal setting in educational systems by examining the results of its use in five Vermont schools. The findings show a gap between educational realities and the tradition of organizational maintenance and change on which the model is based. Also discussed are studies of…

Contained in this document are extracts from an address by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization at the International Conference on Human Rights organized at Teheran by the United Nations; a paper presented at the World Assembly for Human Rights (Montreal, 22-27 March 1968); and the text of…

The rapidity and complexity of current change create a paradoxical need for educational decision-making that is at the same time rapid and well thought out. A fundamental obstruction to genuinely effective educational planning is a misconceived notion of "practicality." The essence of the misconception is the belief that change in education should…

During the 1969-70 academic year the author engaged in an extensive program of research training at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He studied multidimensional scaling techniques and used many of these techniques in the analysis of data resulting from experiments and studies of the visual and cognitive perception of letters and words. The…

A knowledge of literary forms, periods, and biographical background is of secondary importance in the study of literature, the primary function of which is to help students experience through feeling, intellect, and imagination what it is to be alive. This may be accomplished by the "inductive" or "discovery" method in which students are…