To achieve open education for adults, demands for accessibility, flexibility, relevance, accountability, productivity, and measurable outcomes must be heeded. The impetus for planning and coordination between institutions should come from continuing education. Goals to be achieved are: definition of purpose, funding policy, articulation, and…

The Environmental Home Economics Education project in Alaska has three goals: to incorporate environmental education in the home economics curriculum, to expand interest in environmental home economics, and to share gained knowledge and materials nationally. (Author)

New York State's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) now serve approximately 30,000 handicapped children, whose disabilities range from mild to severe. BOCES provide shared services to two or more member school districts that initiate the request when one or the other is unable to provide such services economically or efficiently…

Discussed a treatment program for drug addicts and evaluated the frequently unsophisticated approach to drug abuse problem solving. (RK)

An individualized performance-based teacher education (IPTE) program was first implemented at Weber State College in September 1970. The author, brought to Weber State to evaluate the program, reveals its strengths and weaknesses. (Author/JF)

In this historical view of the 19th century British initiatives to learn about Continental education methods and problems, the author challenges present-day educationists to reestablish that initiative and enthusiasm, cut off by World War I, so that today more than strictly comparative data can be shared in European education. (JH)

The development of non-traditional degree programs should be encouraged in those institutions of higher education which have the capability to do them well. Proper planning in preparation for the non-traditional student is important. (AG)

The director of a guidance program describes a system of monthly and yearly reports designed to provide a means of evaluating the program. (RP)

A change to the metric system -- the International System of Units -- in the building construction industry would require a federal agency to administer a nationally coordinated program with representation of the various building construction industries. The program should include a carefully planned sequence of events for transition and a…

Summaries of three papers presented at a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1, 1973, Chicago, Illinois. (RL)

The president of Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C., describes the program at the only fully accredited liberal arts college for the deaf in the U.S. (Author/DN)

A discussion of Intelsat, the first operational system of global interconnections relying solely on communication satellites. (Author/HB)