A discussion of the concern with hardware of Britain's Schools Council, an organization whose purpose is to bring educational information to teachers throughout the country. (AK)

Author discusses the unspoken ideological biases prevalent in seemingly non-political" or anti-political" free schools. (Editor)

Condorcet, President of France in 1792, proposed the organization of free education on five levels, from primary to university. The main innovation of his program was that each level included a program for adults. (Author/MF)

The Chairman of the University of Michigan's Physics Department reflects on how little we know about the effects the new developments in education will have on creativity. (LS)

A brief review of a Rand Corporation report prepared for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on "The Performance Contracting Concept in Education." (AK)

A new concept in humanities instruction is presented. (CK)

Briefly discusses why interest in programed instruction has declined in the United Kingdom. (AA)

Describes visit to Summerhill, an innovative school developed by A.S. Neill. (PKP)

American education is a vast junkyard of curricular innovations that in their own heydays were promoted as panaceas for much that ails the schools and society. It's not that good ideas and usable methods were lacking there. It's that they live in a culture where people expect too much, in too short a time, for too little an investment in…