This issue of the newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has as its theme International Science Education. It contains reports from five science education projects located in Great Britain, the West Indies, Africa, Thailand, and Australia. Also included is an article by Dr. Albert V. Baez, Chairman of the AAAS…

This paper describes how the School of Education at Indiana University intends to take maximum advantage of available resources during the coming 5 years. It is organized around four primary functions of the School of Education and discusses how each of these functions contributes to the overall mission of the school to deal with problems of…

This paper describes an inservice program at Lenoir Rhyne College that is designed to improve the professional quality of cooperating teachers, aid the college in continuing a program in formative evaluation with the goal of improving designs for professional laboratory experiences, and enrich the student teacher's insight into his own growth…

This report contains an introductory paper by Robert E. Stake, "Program Evaluation, Particularly Responsive Evaluation," to a conference, "New Trends in Evaluation," at the Institute of Education, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Also included are comments on State's paper by two invited discussants, Eskil Bjorklund and Terence Marton. It further…

The results of a study carried out to devise alternative systems of accountability for postsecondary education and its components, as well as to devise criteria and methods of evaluation to determine effectiveness and progress in meeting goals, are reported. The body of the report is a summary of subcommittee reports on the following:…

The thesis of this paper is that the ideas expounded in the booklet "Educational Accountability", by Arthur W. Combs, do little to clarify the issues and that a very limited and biased delineation of educational accountability and its behavioral objectives has been presented. It seeks to clarify the situation by examining the ideas of Combs in…

The author reviews the history of graduate study in the United States and establishes a background for dealing with the confusion about the meaning of degrees that colors so much of graduate education today. He concludes that graduate study must acquire new meaning, and he explores two approaches to that meaning. (MJM)

The author states that "there is a sense of inevitability about the course on which higher education is set in America and that planners may be helpless to change this course; though it may, indeed probably will, be changed by the forces of society. But if it remains on the present course, what are the possible consequences?" What these…

The author asserts that "historically, Catholic and Jewish immigrants started life in America with radically different value orientations with respect to education and intellectual achievement." He concludes that in this century the resulting imbalance in the participation of these groups in higher education is being redressed as the…

Although the American system of higher education has been concerned with developing its own unity as a social institution, this book demonstrates that the system has always remained sensitive to three societal factors. There are the changing needs of society; the struggles for control over the sources of culture, knowledge and power within…

This book is a collection of essays written by experienced observers of academia about what happened in 17 institutions during the late 1960s. Institutions included are: Antioch; University of California, Berkeley; City College of New York; Federal City College; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Michigan; Old…

The authors build a case for a broader-based legal education that would give special emphasis to the humanities and the social sciences as these fields bear on the study of law. Their major recommendation for the future of legal education can be summed up in one word: diversity. The new kind of legal education they propose would orient itself to…

Aspects of statewide planning are discussed from the viewpoint of an institutional administrator, a systemwide administrator, and a legislator. The institutional perspective encompasses the tri-state system and enlightened authority. The system viewpoint emphasizes the presidential stance and the legislative perspective and reviews the need for…

This paper identifies the goals that are sought through higher education in all its aspects and explores the implications of these goals for the financing of higher education. Fifteen goals are considered including: economic growth and military power, supply of professional and other skilled persons, citizenship and civic leadership, solution of…

National goals in the field of education are career awareness, career preparation, equal educational opportunity, and financial aid to students. The Educational Amendments of 1972, in providing the Emergency School Assistance Act, the National Institute of Education, and broader financial support, met these goals to a certain extent. It is very…