In order to understand the dynamics of ethnicity as it operates in the United States, students in a sociology course on minorities combined theoretical material with an analysis of the distinctive group patterns in the region. (Author/DE)

As part of an introductory sociology course students examined social problems from the three perspectives of common sense, journalism, and sociology. They explored these perspectives outside the classroom through various activities which included a questionnaire of their own common sense thoughts, interviews, and readings. (Author/DE)

Author looked at the innovatory work arising out of the Ford T Project. (Editor/RK)

The University of Southern California in Los Angeles has an instructional television system that enables on-the-job scientists to keep up with new information without commuting to the campus. (Author/MLF)

The article discusses the success of the Region Four Adult Basic Education Staff Development Project through various universities' role in the development of services to promote staff involvement in ABE programs. (BP)

Article examined the provisions typical of pass/fail plans implemented in several high schools in this country to determine if these provisions are likely to enhance accomplishment of the objectives of the pass/fail grading innovation. (Author/RK)

Manpower is a field that generally has been ignored by social workers. This article explains why this has happened and describes the various opportunities available. (Author)

Article investigated world-wide efforts to study educational change and implement new ideas into the educational mainstream. (RK)

Discussed the development of a project entitled International Management Training for Educational Change, which focused on educational innovation and on sharing information among countries. (RK)

Twenty essays on rural mass education by T'ao Hsing-Chih (1891-1946), one of China's most effective early exponents of mass-education movements, are provided. (DE)

An examination of various criticisms leveled at the Haitian educational system reveals the complexity of changes embodied in such reforms and explains the resistance to such proposals in terms of adaptive functional responses which permit Haitians to maintain their singular, unique sense of self. (EH)

An historical account of the efforts of Alice Barrow to implement the platoon school system (developed in Gary, Indiana, by William Wirt) in New York City during the period 1914-1917. (EH)

The author explores the potentially significant relationship between continuing education and urban administration. Recent literature is reviewed, and the innovative master of arts program in urban-suburban administration at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut is described. (EA)

Because the concept of permanent or lifelong education postulates a basic reorganization of the British education system, the author suggests areas for innovation at the national, local, and political levels, as well as a new structure for all post-school education, but proposes a gradual reorientation rather than immediate radical change. (AJ)