Discusses the advantages of correspondence education in England and the Netherlands, the development of correspondence education in both countries, and the more recent developments of the Open University in England and the Foundation Inspection of Education by Correspondence (ISO) in the Netherlands, the former enlarging educational opportunities…

Discusses the strengths and limitations of television as a training device for business and industry. Notes that the effectiveness of television depends upon factors such as how closely the program content is related to specific training objectives, the characteristics of the trainees, and how well the instructor integrates the television…

Chronicles the development of an English doctoral program which emphasized both literary study and the teaching of reading and writing. (DD)

Title IX requires that the practice of segregating physical education classes on the basis of sex must cease. This article offers suggestions on how to ease the transition to sex-integrated physical education programs. (Author/DS)

The authors review the background of competency-based education (CBE), discuss its merits and drawbacks, and cite recommendations from the National Association of Secondary School Principals. (DS)

Advocates the continued administration of public relations courses within the journalism curriculum. (RL)

The first institution-to-institution undergraduate academic exchange between a Soviet institution--Moscow's State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages-M. Thorez--and an American university is reported. The four-month exchange program began in 1974 and has expanded each year since. (LBH)

Describes fourteen different BASIC computer programs to aid teaching secondary physics. (SL)

The Home Education Livelihood Program, Inc. (HELP) has been involved in the creation of new mechanisms designed to improve the quality of life in the rural towns, villages, and small cities of New Mexico. HELP assists in the physical, human, and economic development, and provides a multitude of socioeconomic services to such rural residents as…

Tennessee's Right to Read Effort is described in terms of six on-going programs: State Leadership and Training (the basics and free reading); Reading Improvement (pre-elementary and elementary schools); Special Emphasis (intensive instruction); Adult Reading Academy (for the functionally illiterate); Reading Is Fundamental (community book…

Six alternative school programs are evaluated to provide additional insight into their effectiveness in (1) promoting cognitive achievement, (2) developing positive student attitudes and self-concepts, (3) developing positive behavior change, and (4) providing long-term benefits to the students. (MJB)

Discusses Congress's move toward a coherent Federal policy on adult education amid evidence that existing programs are not reaching those who seem to need them most. (Author/RK)

Continuing education programs are growing rapidly in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Here private universities are offering credit and noncredit courses off campus to take advantage of the influx of employees and their families accompanying corporate headquarters into the area. Discusses off-campus continuing education programs as they are being…

Reports on the development and field testing of a program to prepare teachers in interpersonal skills. In this program eight affective or interpersonal skills that could be utilized by classroom teachers were identified. These skills were organized in a microteaching format, each described in writing and modeled on videotape. (Editor/RK)

Based on the needs of the business community, a pilot program in court/conference reporting was initiated in the business and office education curriculum at South-Western Vocational School in Ohio three years ago and is now a permanent part of their curriculum. (BM)