The author predicts that private institutions of higher learning, both within cities and in peripheral areas, will be called upon increasingly to help provide for growing and varying continuing education needs. He envisions the rise by 1980 of a new institutional form, the College of Continuing Education, which will combine continuing education…

The National Council for Educational Technology prepared this booklet to familiarize teachers with the Council and some of its work. Very briefly described are some of the projects of NCET dealing with: young children from deprived homes, mathematics, a comprehensive catalog of instructional materials, a subject catalog for physics, information…

Some private liberal arts colleges across the nation face an increasingly uncertain future as costs continue to rise and competition from expanding public institutions intensifies. Meanwhile, there is pressure-witness the recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education-to establish 2-year community colleges in areas not now served…

This paper deals with the role of sports in the educational process. The following points are discussed: a) sport as relaxation, b) sport as an exercise in self-control, and c) sport as a builder of character. Based on these points, the concept of automatic incorporation of physical education in the classroom is presented, with emphasis on the…

The report of a conference on individualized instruction contains brief descriptions of the two conference sponsors--the Westinghouse Learning Corporation and the National Association for the Individualization of Instruction. The report also provides abstracts of some speeches delivered at the conference and biographies of the speakers. A…

The recommendations contained in this report, and the suggestions for implementing them, should make it possible to set up an engineering school which is better adapted to the needs of modern Spain. The primary objective is to produce top-level staff who can make an effective contribution to industrial development; and to train students at the…

To achieve educational improvement, educational leaders must change from being uninvolved and apathetic to being involved and concerned, and plan for the future at the same time they work out the present. A council on the development of human qualities should be created within each community. This council would include all the behavioral, medical,…

This monograph discusses some of the reforms and changes that have taken place in professional schools. Chapter I discusses: (1) the nature and characteristics of professions; (2) the evolution of professional education; (3) the purposes of professional education and some of its persistent problems; and (4) the forces that are pushing for radical…

This annual report contains five speeches presented at the International Council on Education for Teaching Conference in Sydney, Australia in August, 1970. Titles and authors of the speeches are 1) "New Developments in Education for the Seventies" by Seth Spaulding, 2) "The Uses and Abuses of Diversity in Teacher Education" by…

The articles in this issue range from a description of starting a successful free school in a St. Louis ghetto to a suggestion for suing the public school system for failing to provide adequate education. Personal experiences of a teacher suspended for his radical approach to teaching, of a substitute teacher in a class to teach English to the…

This volume provides an extensive compendium of information about the changes occurring in higher education that are expanding the opportunities through which individuals can learn and gain recognition for that learning. The first section of the report is concerned with programs that were operational by fall 1972 while the second section focuses…

The Paracollege of St. Olaf College is a satellite institution in which educational experimentation takes place. The paracollege has a student body of 240 and the faculty numbers 21. In addition to the other aims of St. Olaf as a whole, the Paracollege has as its objectives (1) to be an experimenting unit of St. Olaf College, always searching for…

This paper relates contemporary information about communications and media technology to the task of reconstructing educational institutions. This paper treats three broad areas: a) learning centers which will satisfy individual needs, b) fundamental principles supporting the centers, and c) the implementation of the learning centers. The first…

This evaluation report is in two main sections, the first dealing with a program in five senior high school areas and involving 96 teachers during 1968-70, the second dealing with a program in one high school and one vocational high school and involving 43 teachers during 1970-71. The programs were established to seek out and fund innovative…

Sources of assistance for using educational technology in developing nations are listed in this 33-page catalog. Each catalog entry includes the name and address of a group or organization and a 30-100 word description of the services they offer. The catalog is divided into five parts: sources of general information and technical and training…