Discusses specialized councils which evaluate doctoral dissertations and confer academic degrees in the USSR. Stages of council activity include: evaluation of the originality and significance of the research and investigation to see if the dissertation adheres to requirements of various branches of science. (Author/DB)

A 1973 survey of middle, junior, and senior high schools in Connecticut indicated that more schools teach geography now than they did in 1968; more geography courses are required now; no major curriculum changes have occurred since 1968; geography courses are oriented toward social studies; and geography is strongest in junior high schools.…

Research and practitioners are both at fault for failing to understand and communicate with each other. The result has been mutual animosity and a failure of research to bolster educational practice in the way it should. (Author/DS)

The author depicts how the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) serves as a major facilitator in attending to the concerns of teachers in a practical and theoretically sound manner. (MJB)

How special education is gradually changing--theory, practice, public opinion. (Editor)

Research shows that inclusion in non-career (deviant career) educational programs contributes to patterns of social deviancy or delinquency, that decisions on placement in these programs are often made using non-academic criteria, and that such patterns are likely to continue unless the decision process is revamped and systematically monitored.…

Provides a case study of the evolution of the Paracollege, a major curriculum change at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The paracollege is a small experimental unit in which innovation in education and new patterns of both learning and teaching are tested. (Author/RK)

Psychosynethetic education aims at developing and harmonizing the fundamental functions and qualities of the human being: physical, sensory, emotional, imaginative, mental, creative, intuitive, ethical, social volitional, and transpersonal. (MB)

Suggests that in the name of liberalism, the social system annihilates other cultures by ensuring that only their sellouts can get on in the world while the subjects and processes which could more fully inform the academic process is ignored. (Author/AM)

Attempts to specify how far recent changes in educational history have taken us and to offer a critical assessment of its effect on philosophy instruction. (Author/RK)

Provides some suggestions for translating multicultural education theory into practice after discussing the need for implementing multicultural education and bilingual instruction for all United States citizens. (Author/RK)

The author, Principal Research Officer of the current NFER Mixed Ability Teaching Project, tries here unravel some of the complex questions of ideology, organization and evaluation which have been overlooked in the current debate, highlighted by recent critical statements from the Inspectorate, over mixed-ability grouping in comprehensive schools.…

Few teachers have the time or energy to step back and consider their own practice. Last term, eleven members of a department in a large urban comprehensive kept a detailed diary of one week's experience. Their collective account provides a vivid snapshot of the everyday life of a teacher. (Editor)

Uncovers profound differences in what parents and teachers think nursery schools are for. (Editor)

Sets forth diagramatic representations of the four art disciplines (aesthetics, criticism, history, production) as a basis for devising a discipline-based art curriculum. Provides an example of an inquiry framework to guide the planning and application of instruction. (AEM)