A three-way dialog between Francis Pray, Chairman of Frantzreb and Pray Associates; William Sullivan, Dean of St. Louis University; and John Terry from John Brown University on the future of private higher education. (PG)

Describes the pitfalls inherent in removing all barriers to postsecondary education at the community college level. (PG)

African education -- past and present -- is surveyed and suggestions are made to ensure that African national educational systems meet the needs of a modern world while fostering the full development of African culture and helping to satisfy the material and spiritual needs of the in people. (JH)

In making the transition between the research and theory on goal structures and the literature on open education, five of the more pervasive themes of open education were discussed. (Author/RK)

Considered the motivating force behind art works and how students can be stimulated to create. (RK)

Discussed the development of a teacher advisor program at the Purnell School, Pottersville, New Jersey. (RK)

Author described efforts to modernize a system of writing, extremely difficult to teach and to learn, and assessed the benefits of changing from traditional characters to a Latin alphabet including the cost that would be involved: the separation of modern Chinese writing from the heritage of the past. (Editor/RK)

A recommitment to values in social work theory and practice is emphasized and alternative research styles, stressing values, are suggested. (Editor)

This article examines how the social sciences should provide the foundation upon which educators can modify old curricula to achieve a humanistic curriculum. Emphasis is placed upon the fact that social science disciplines have a common denominator of man which is readily adaptable to humanistic education. (DE)

The study of history as a means of emphasizing the role of the past as a contributor to general education is examined. Eight guidelines are provided which contribute to the general education goals of knowledge of the world and exposure to a process of self-discovery. (DE)

Higher education may return to education for a minority, an unlikely course; concentrate on higher skilling, the road we are on today; or restore general education, the most attractive possibility, which can be implemented by restoring basic education in literacy, history, human biology, and language. (JH)

This article examines seven tasks in order for the goal of internationalizing education to be achieved in Sweden. Coordination efforts among international organizations is stressed. (DE)

This review of the Twenty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (1926) notes the circumstances that led to its appearance and assesses the picture of curriculum work that it presented. (Author/MLF)

This article, a reprint from the 1927 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, discusses the social purpose of education, the function of the school, and curriculum-making and the nature of the learner, the nature of society, the organization of knowledge, and the scientific method. (Author/MLF)

Vocational education should not abandon measurable objectives which lead students to job competencies in favor of career education objectives that are as yet fuzzy, incomplete, and not readily measurable. (Author)