Because children who enter school with a previously undetected learning handicap often become caught in a cycle of school failure, the Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) provides comprehensive diagnostic and educational services for 225 families with preschool children. (CS)

Recounts one teacher's observations regarding the need for a change in teaching methodology on the part of professors and more diligence on the part of students. (DD)

Article considers the newest instructional aids and trends in community colleges. (RK)

Describes attempts at the University of California at Santa Cruz to integrate traditional and innovative educational practices through cluster colleges.'' Details the university's organizational structure and selected academic innovations, and forecasts future growth and development. (JH)

The promotion of selected student behaviors and awareness of the social construction of reality'' appear to be as severely neglected outside of the social studies as within. The directions and tools to end this aspect of educational lag are available and need only be implemented. (Author/CB)

Article explores the growing pains of an experimental school seeking to expand the learning experience. (RK)

In Louisville, Kentucky, urban education problems were met through numerous organizational, financial, curricular, and personnel changes and retraining. The belief that people support what they help create and that people affected by change must be allowed participation in planning change insured the finding of satisfactory solutions. (Author/JN)

New York City's Mayor outlines the directions education is taking in its urban development. (RK)

Urges educators to make education transformative as well as transmissive by suggesting education should work toward making man have the faith and power to direct his future. Asks educators to prophecy urgently, magnetically, and then fulfill those prophecies. (Author/DN)

Sandwich courses' survival depends on devising a procedure to assess industrial training meaningfully. The author proposes a list of specific procedures in such an assessment, including regular student inverviews with an assessment panel consisting of both his academic and industrial teachers. (Author/JB)

Discusses the importance of innovating educational systems such that the new structures serve all the functions served by the structure being replaced, as well as serving either new ones or the old ones more efficiently, or both. (JM)

Pros and cons of the controversial voucher plan now being tried in the United States. (Author/MM)