Literacy is discussed in terms of vertical and individualistic schooling, autonomous and societal education, and socioeconomic influences in an address presented at the International Symposium for Literacy, Persepolis, Iran. (LH)

The business education department of Hazelwood High School, St. Louis County, Missouri, has developed a prototype career education program that introduces students to specific jobs in the area of accounting. (LH)

This paper critically reviews methods of pupil assessment at the beginning, during and at the end of the second cycle of secondary education. It notes a trend towards more global assessment based on a mixture of external and internal, periodic and terminal, subjective and objective tests. (Editor)

The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the issues of evaluation research as they apply to college teaching: approaches, goals, politics and purposes, and utilization. (Author/ND)

The vagueness of the educational aims of Israel's Education Act of 1953 made the translation of general objectives into functional objectives necessary. General objectives were translated into more precisely defined behavioral objectives by Israel experts. The level of public acceptance of the behavioral statements was assessed. (BJG)

The relationship of education, physics, and technology is investigated from a historical perspective. Using this basis, a list of goals of physics education is formulated in which the author feels primary emphasis should be to teach physics to students in order that they may have a better understanding of the world and its technical aspects. (CP)

As part of a feature series on the common curriculum, author suggested some difficulties involved in organizing a timetable which provided real choice for all students. (Editor/RK)

Author looked for a genuine radical way between the "high culture" and the "child-centered" approaches to education. (Editor/RK)

Summarizes conference recommendations to speech communication educators regarding future goals, roles, research, theory, status and rewards of the field. (MH)

Among the themes of this article were that much talk about standards is shallow and emotive and that teachers need to overcome a historically legitimate but now irrelevant opposition to the notion of the assessment of standards. (Author/RK)

Author looked at the progress and problems of some parent action groups. (Editor/RK)

Author explained her objective of teaching a workshop stressing the developmental nature of morality as well as acquainting a group of teachers with Kohlberg's dilemmas and their own. (Author/RK)

Author argued that private colleges and universities must once again come to prize diverse personality types and abilities other than those measured by quantitative scores. Unless they do so, he suggested they will fail to reflect the values of society and have little influence on its future directions. (Editor/RK)

Four reasons for the value of a liberal arts education are discussed in terms of the liberal arts versus vocational educational controversy. (KE)