When parents and educators are dismayed by the younger generation's declining skills, future orientation, and interest in success, they should direct their concern to the interplay between "video Valhalla," narcissistic consumerism, and open education in today's enculturative processes. (Author/IRT)

A critic of innovation, change, and experimentation in higher education discusses nontraditional delivery systems and the pitfalls of being a critic. Quality and standards of education are discussed along with the accrediting process and abuses in nontraditional delivery systems. (MLW)

Focuses on the relationship of social change to educational innovation and reviews selected studies from the beginning, middle, and end of the 1960s to determine perspectives which have been brought to bear on educational innovation. (Author/DB)

Reports on what researchers discovered in their study of five urban school districts that were labeled "innovative." Provides a conceptual framework that takes into account five factors that seemed critical to a district's success or failure in implementing change. (Author/IRT)

Describes a technique for encoding both visual images and audio signals on a 12-inch long playing disc that could provide educators with a limitless structure of information. (FL)

Discusses the demise of an innovative, nontraditional model classroom in a university setting. Explains why administrators decided to discontinue the project and explores why students and teachers lost interest in furthering the project. (DB)

Many personalized system of instruction concepts can be applied to traditional courses. (BB)

Considers the planning of innovation in higher education from four viewpoints: the nature of the innovation, the planning process, educational planning, and higher education. In the absence of external pressures to change attitudes, planning of innovation seeks to create a favorable environment through altered organizational structures and…

Nowhere in the U. S. is there a well-established system of synergistic elements between theory and practice in industrial education. Industrial technology educators could benefit and vocational education's efficiency be improved by adapting the medical school-teaching hospital model. Implementing the concept SYNTEC (synergistic technology) could…

Discusses arguments that have been put forward by those who seek radical changes in secondary school chemistry curriculum. (MLH)

It is Haworth's hope that by 1980 the American public high school will provide many more options for its students in the academic, social, instructional, and human climates where most of their waking time is spent. The survey results presented here indicate that his hope may become a reality. (Editor/RK)

Discusses the need to develop a psychological climate conducive to change in schools, the financing necessary for adequate system of research and development, and the limits research proposals should encompass to meet community needs. (RK)

Time, money, and learning effectiveness should all be considered in evaluating an instructional system. As an illustration, the authors describe the evaluation of an individualized instructional system using tutors. (Authors/BD)

Although the middle school was heralded as a partial answer to the unrest and rebellion of the past two decades, much as the junior high was in the early part of this century, neither organization has proved to be a panacea for the ills of the nation's schools. (Author)