An innovative educational program with mobile-van classroom provides a course in special education to help Appalachian teachers in identifying and aiding handicapped students. (BH)

Reports on an educational conference held in Toronto stressing spontaneous and expressive alternatives to existing educational patterns in public education. (Author)

Analyzes the nature of science education research and the various approaches adopted by researchers in science education. Critical problems in each of four research areas are highlighted. Implications and suggestions for further research are presented. Bibliography. (LC)

Describes how training by stages has been developed in the Federal Republic of Germany. (Editor)

Describes entrance of volunteers into urban junior high school and explicates problems encountered and methods evolved to deal with them, and provides rationale for these methods and an objective for this initial phase of contact with the school. (Author)

Maintains that the "basic skills" taught in the schools should be those required for functioning in current society. (SW)

Paper presented at Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska, March 17-19, 1969). (JJ)

Recounts entrance of language study into the curriculum and suggests areas potentially interesting to students. (RD)

Brief discussion of the field-centered University of Washington Model for Teacher Education and of some of the problems likely to be encountered in its implementation. (JS)

The fiscal 1971 Office of Education budget stresses innovation but promises little or no new money. Aspects of the budget are presented. (MF)