A fundamental and accepted mission of community colleges in the United States has been to provide educational opportunity for all citizens. The goals for planning community colleges in light of this mission have been summarized as: (1) providing a diversity of programs that attract students in all categories; (2) responding to labor force needs…

Intended for vocational educators, the monograph analyzes the role of individualized instruction in vocational programing for special needs students. Characteristics of an individualized approach include active learning, instructional objectives, small units, evaluation, and self-pacing. Suggestions are offered for implementing an individualized…

This document contains a set of curriculum objectives in mathematics for elementary and middle school students in Boston, Massachusetts. The objectives, which include all the Massachusetts Basic Skills, were based on a wide variety of curricula, textbooks, and academic literature, and were reviewed by several teachers, administrators, and parents…

While its educational policy is still in a period of transition, China in 1983 is more politically moderate, with a longer projected educational program for the masses than at any time since 1949. It is providing more experiential and relevant curricula from preschool through the senior middle school, with increased facilities and financing. While…

The article discusses the major goals of labor training in secondary Russian urban schools and ways for achieving these goals. (Author/RM)

Article focused on teacher preparation for the special educator and the art teacher and discussed an art curriculum that will provide the prospective art teacher with the ability to help students to develop their individual capacities. (RK)

Discusses the role of speech communication departments in higher education, focusing on student apathy in the humanities and the general educational financial crises. Suggests that speech professionals look to rhetorical and literary theorists and historians for leadership in the renewed pursuit of humanistic aims. (MH)

The main conclusions of this report are summarized in extracts from the three resolutions adopted by the Standing Conference of European Ministers of Education. (Author/RK)

Author attempted to further examine the sphere concept, introduced by R. A. Smith in 1970, in relation to its "utility for thinking about problems of aesthetic education" and aesthetic welfare. (Author/RK)

This article relates the experience of one state principals' association in influencing the passage of desirable legislation. The legislative network described here has worked for Massachusetts. (Editor)

Discusses functional education or education as training for daily living. Reprint from September 1924 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)

Offers some reflections on the professional commitments of undergraduate English and argues the need for establishing clearly defined educational goals. (RB)

Examines the kinds of change with which educational administrators must deal. (RB)