Looks at the role of a community council in formulating goals and objectives for (1) the community education process and (2) its own specific role. Considers three processes leading to realistic objectives: (1) identifying activity parameters (goal areas), (2) establishing goal priorities, and (3) formulating specific objectives for performance.…

Discusses programs useful for retarded people and the role of community colleges in their development. (RK)

Describes the development of a 6-step accountability model created to identify Statewide educational goals and to provide some means of measuring performance in relation to those goals. (Author/DN)

While the world is in profound transformation in search of its unity, the universities unfortunately do not seem to understand the real situation of the rest of the world. (Author)

The extent to which motivational strategies work with individual learners is closely related to the extent that they satisfy or reward fundamental human drives toward achievement, acceptance, knowledge and activity. (Author)

Asserts that from a sociological analysis of the concept of community,'' and from a survey of some model community schools,'' no precise definition exists for the term community education.'' Argues that those involved in the movement should return to basics and come up with a definition that touches on the lives of people. (WM)

Address at the 52nd Annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies.

Policy statements concerning the role of business education in career education and consumer education. (SB)

Describes the goals of the public educational system as lying between life adjustment education and basic education; the author prefers the latter. (RN)

Develops an operational definition of accountability and examines some of the implications for schoolmen and their supporters. (Author)

The social sciences are examined in terms of a basic purpose of education--to help young people cope with life in their society. The fact that social studies education disregards the basic purpose of education and offers an adult centered curriculum with roots in the past is discussed, and ways to deal with these problems are briefly suggested.…

Author considers various strategies to upgrade education in individual school districts, and to implement recent innovations in education. (GB)

Discusses a ten year plan for growth and improvement reflecting the faith of the British people in the worth of their schools and their rejection of destructive criticism of contemporary education. (GB)