Describes a teen-run cafeteria, a program of giving away obsolete texts, a short term investment plan (a programed approach to cash-flow budgeting), an emergency credit'' plan whereby teachers can acquire credit hours outside school, and an automated attendance checker system. (DN)

Author discusses two proposals to update higher education combining various teaching procedures and philosophies into sensible, comprehensive and relevant curriculums. (Ed.)

Reviews the current status and focus of black studies within the educational milieu. (DM)

Offers some penetrating insights into the reasons for the failure of Fordham's experimental college, Bensalem. (PW)

Paper describes the organization of a program established by Intermediate School District 101, State of Washington, involving thirteen rural school districts during the second semester of 1971. (CB)

A staff member of Minnesota Metropolitan State College describes her first reactions to the new upper-level institution. (PB)

Rejection of schools as impersonal processors of resigned children, badly prepared for an inscrutable society, is being accompanied by a return to local initiative and individual responsibility for education. (Author)

Described is an experimental program which involved social studies teachers in using innovative materials. Field agents--persons with specialized knowledge of new developments in the field, and who would have regular contact with both teachers and development centers--acted as trainers with the purpose of sending teachers back to their own…

Describes organizations that are involved with educational change and innovations, black studies, women's studies, free schools, film and student issues. (PG)

Describes how Highland Park, Illinois, school administrators and board members convinced their community that the Elm Place School -- the oldest school and the most symbolic of the community's cultural and social heritage -- needed facility upgrading and program improvements. Provides the procedures in acquiring their 68,000 square foot addition…

This case study describes the use of OD strategies to introduce psychological curricula in a community college. The author hypothesizes that the success of the intervention was due to the combination of three factors: favorable historical antecedents, the nature of the intervention, and continuous leadership by key administrators before and after…

A new approach to education is needed. Psychological education seems to be one alternative. It challenges and attacks the educational process as we know it because it educates the whole man in all that he is. Whether it is Affective, Cognitive-Developmental, or Problem-Solving, psychological education seems to be true education for growth. (Author)

A paper read in February 1972 at the National Conference on Graduate Studies in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. (RB)