Emphasizes the need for a strong partnership between community and school in developing successful reading programs for inner-city children. (WY)

In Liverpool, England, the University Institute of Extension Studies, the Workers Educational Association, and the Educational Priority Areas project are working together in primary education, adult education, and community development in a working class community. (EB)

Noting the acceleration of scientific evaluation, the author focuses his attention on where we now stand in the evaluation of two methods of instruction: programed learning materials and television. (Editor)

Evaluates past and present educational practices. Expresses the view that education has failed to pass on Western culture to the young, or to equip them to deal with their world and environment. (DM)

A program for disoriented youth is realistic job-oriented training with occupational work experience. (GR)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study to determine what factors contribute to the greatest attitudinal change in science teachers as a result of a teacher education program. Subjects were 60 elementary school teachers who taught Science - A Process Approach. Positive changes in attitudes were found in those teachers (1) who…

Identifies six obstacles to change, discusses innovative curricula and their impact on the changing role of the teacher, and lists teacher education and professionalism as two plausible solutions to help bring about educational change. (GR)

In an evaluation of the effectiveness of broadcasting media in education the control class achieved higher posttest scores than the experimental classes. These results suggest that when experimental and control classes are housed at the same location, teachers of control classes may and can motivate their students so that their classes no longer…

CLOSE (Center for Laboratory Oriented Studies and Experimentation) is an organization of engineering educators and 5 industries engaged in improving and strengthening engineering curricula devoted to laboratory oriented studies. (Editor)