For the first time, Colombia is in a position to comply with the article of her constitution which guarantees a primary education to all citizens. The country now has the technical, political and financial conditions necessary to universalize primary education, particularly in rural areas where low coverage and inefficiency of the system have…

Theory indicates that a fourth, the emergent, reading level may be even more important in understanding the process of reading development than the three previously designated levels: the independent level, at which students have no difficulty reading on their own; the instructional level, at which students need assistance; and the frustration…

Tennessee's Better Schools Program includes a Master Teacher Program that has three components: teacher education, clinical supervision of beginning teachers, and a career ladder based on performance. In conjunction with the establishment of the Master Teacher Program, 23 master teacher competencies for teacher evaluation have been defined.…

Recommending that communication students be required to learn to use computers not merely as number crunchers, word processors, data bases, and graphics generators, but also as logical inference makers, this paper examines the recently developed technology of logical programing in computer languages. It presents two syllogisms and shows how they…

A computer activity center was established in a preschool in order to investigate the effect of the introduction and use of microcomputers on the environment and to assess the appropriateness of computers as tools for the preschool. The center consisted of one 16K Atari 400 computer, a black and white television, a cassette memory storage device,…

The assimilation of Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium learning activities packages into distributive education classes at Lumberton Senior High School, Lumberton, North Carolina, is described. (LH)

The accumulated evidence argues that a school contemplating curricular innovation will heighten its chances of success if it first gives staff members practice in new norms and skills for the collaboration that will be necessary to the innovation's success. (Author/AM)

Presents a description of some of the needs in the 60's which generated the efforts to create the training materials and support training of trainers, the issues that seemed to need answers, a number of actions which have been taken, answers found for some of the issues, and suggestions of work yet to be done. (Author/AM)

Describes briefly the "Experimental Quarter" at Skagit Valley College in which 30 students registered for 16 credits of Education and were given total freedom to pursue their own educational needs in any way they individually selected, then reregistered at the end of the quarter for what they had studied. Positive student attitudes…

Leadership which is effective in the implementation of educational innovation is participating in nature and requires a humane response to the needs and interests of those involved. For journal availability see SO 504 329. (Author/DE)

The attempts of St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, to respond to the pastoral "To Teach as Jesus Did" is described. For journal availability see SO 504 329. (DE)

The innovative program described in this article was designed to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining credentials to qualify for a professional counseling position. Results supported the recent focus on variables related to candidates' success as counselors, rather than on their previous academic performances. (Author)

Makes extensive predictions concerning life styles in the United States in the late 1980's. Viewed from what is termed a public interest perspective, trends in resource conservation, education, and areas of human relations are projected. (CP)

The "responsive evaluation" approach does not provide strong proof that a program was a success or failure or even hard data for making good comparisons, but it often results in people understanding their program better. (Author/IRT)

Noting that "career education is only the latest in the grand parade of American learning fads," the author points out that despite the proliferation of technology in France and the habit of accepting American fads, the French still consider education to have three aims--for work, for public life, for private life. (JT)