Today's language arts teacher must adapt himself to the individually-paced classroom environment of the future by utilizing the newest procedures in his field within the current structures of the heterogeneous, homogeneous, or "core"-type classroom. The teacher of a heterogeneous group must insure individual student progress by differentiating the…

This interim report describes progress made toward the following five objectives of a project designed to evaluate data collected by the Cooperative Project in Educational Development (COPED): (1) To evaluate the COPED instruments; (2) to produce a compilation of instruments measuring social functioning in schools; (3) to develop, field test, and…

A follow-up study was made of a 1966 summer retraining program designed to increase the range of teacher competencies in dealing with disadvantaged youth within the classroom and teacher understanding of the concerns of parents of disadvantaged youth as a major means of effecting educational change. The 4-week program involved about 150 teachers…

The theme running consistently through this speech is that the supportive services to vocational education, to be effective, must be viewed in a sociological context. Further examination of the issue is considered from a social system perspective and from the individual behavior perspective. It is concluded that no problem as complicated as the…

This paper presents a general model for restructuring teacher education programs in order that they might more adequately fulfill what the planners consider to be the essential goal of teacher education--i.e., the production of "teachers who are self-actualizing, integrated persons, fully capable of functioning within the evolving institution of…

Demand for courses in population problems has increased along with growing public awareness and concern for population-related matters. This paper describes an undergraduate classroom experience which provides an alternative approach to teaching population problems by replacing usual educational materials with selections from science fiction…

The following papers collected in this publication were presented for discussion at the Open Court Editorial Advisory Board Meeting in 1970. "Testing, Grades, Standards" by Jacques Barzun discusses the relationship between these three elements and the process of education and of performance evaluation. In "The Limits of Reform in Education" James…

This newsletter, announced here on a one time basis, is published by Earthrise, a Corporation engaged in futures research, education, and design. Typical issues report on activities conducted by Earthrise and those of similar organizations to stimulate information exchange on futures. In this issue futures studies is defined and defended, and a…

A study conducted in the winter of 1973 attempted to investigate how elementary school principals in innovative schools perceive their roles compared to the role perceptions of principals in more traditional school settings. Thirty-two schools were designated as innovative by a panel of four elementary school principals. It was assumed that the…

This document is an extensive annotated bibliography of institutional research, 1972-73. Contents cover goals of higher education, community development goals, spatial environments of higher education, the university, the community college, institutions of higher education within the civil government, curriculum and instruction, research,…

Program evaluators and program managers should examine appropriate dimensions of innovations when deciding to support, accept, or reject an educational innovation. Survey questionnaires were used with 76 teachers and administrators and 65 State supervisors and local project directors of exemplary programs to obtain a list of 38…

Articles resulting from studies conducted by college undergraduates in all areas of experimental psychology are provided, together with abstracts of other papers authored by students in the field of study. The articles are: The Influence of SET on Solving Hidden-Word Problems by Lana I. Boutacoff; Violation of Personal Space in Deviant Adolescents…

The focus of this book, "re-vision," derived from concerns expressed in the open meeting of the November 1973 convention of the National Council of Teachers of English by teachers interested in changes in classroom practices which result from reflection on a particular problem and the subsequent search for a solution. Following an…

The diffusion of Individually Guided Education in Multiunit Schools (IGE/MUS) from the Wisconsin R & D Center for Cognitive Learning to local schools, was explored in terms of the organizational relationships and roles between the R & D Center, resource system, state education agencies (SEA), teacher education institutions (TEI), both…

In an effort to seek out and describe exemplary and innovative features of agricultural high schools in Asian countries, letters of inquiry were sent to the directors of agricultural education programs in Thailand, Republic of China, Japan, and South Korea informing them of a study tour planned by three members of the University of the Philipines…