SIX ARTICLES CRITICALLY EXAMINE THE PROCESS OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING FROM THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS TO THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTATION. ANDERSON AND BOWMAN IN "THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL PLANNING" DISCUSS SUCH TOPICS AS THE DEFINITION OF PLANNING, EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATIZATION, PLANNING FOR…

FROM A 1964 NATIONAL QUOTA-PROBABILITY SAMPLE OF INTERVIEWS WITH 1,500 CITIZENS 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, MAJOR VARIABLES WERE DEFINED RELATING TO COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES. PRIMARY CONTENT OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS STUDIED WAS FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS. FOR PURPOSES OF CORRELATIONAL ANALYSIS, RESPONDENTS…

A DESIGN FOR A NEW COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY IS PRESENTED. THE GOAL OF THE NEW COLLEGE IS TO INITIATE IN THE STUDENT A PROCESS OF EVOLUTION WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO SHAPE HIM THROUGHOUT LIFE. THE CURRICULUM IS DESIGNED TO HELP THE STUDENT BECOME AN INTELLECTUALLY INDEPENDENT AND EMOTIONALLY RESPONSIBLE…

A SERIES OF REGIONAL CONFERENCES WAS HELD IN EIGHT CITIES ACROSS THE NATION IN 1965-66 AS THE THIRD PHASE OF A MAJOR EFFORT BY THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TEACHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS TO IMPROVE CONTINUING EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS. NEW WAYS WERE SOUGHT TO SOLVE OLD PROBLEMS, INCLUDING LACK OF TIME TO PLAN AND…

Schools need to meet unique problems through the development of special classroom management techniques. Factors which contribute to classroom problems include lack of supervision at home, broken homes, economic deprivation, and a desire for peer attention. The educational atmosphere should encourage creativity for both the student and the…

This paper reports the summative evaluation of a four-year Teacher Corps project at a California elementary school. The archives of the project and interviews with over 60 of the persons involved are the basis of the report. The investigation focused on an examination of the school's formal and informal systems. The study looks at (1) the social…

Curricular and instructional issues are discussed in 12 articles by faculty of the Connecticut community colleges. Jack McLean examines the potential role of community colleges in international education, and Kerin Sarason proposes teacher self-evaluations to reduce faculty/administrator tension. Jean Burr Smith introduces methods of reducing math…

This guide is the third of four intended to help persons involved in planning new schools, new programs, or other comprehensive change projects. The materials consist of readings to be done individually and exercises to be done individually and/or with a group. Guide 3 looks at the political side of planning new schools by examining the interface…

A cooperative project of Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, the College for Human Services, New York, and Merrimack Valley Branch/University of New Hampshire on the topic of leisure and liberal education is described. The project is part of "Change in Liberal Education," a network concerned with the renewal of liberal education. The…

Charles A. Curran has developed a radically different type of language learning by dealing with the learners as a group rather than as a class. The social learning relationships of a class differ from a group in the contract, the social milieu, in the relationships between the teacher and students, and among the students themselves. Curran called…

The Special Services Program for Disadvantaged Students is designed to assist certain postsecondary students who require special help to complete their education successfully. Through Federal grants to institutions, special service projects have been established to offer supportive services to low-income, physically handicapped, and…

The effects of student instructional preference on performance in an engineering course offered both by Personalized Instruction (PSI) and lecture/discussion methods were explored in a study of 113 university sophomores and juniors. In lieu of random assignment to instruction mode, this study employed self-selection, the most common situation in…

Communicative competence is now at the point where theory must be translated into practice, that is, where the functional approach must be developed into pedagogical content and strategies. An analysis is presented of the three main pedagogical approaches: the structural, situational, and functional approaches. Principles underlying the…

This review covers books, journal articles, and ERIC documents, 1966 and later. Much emphasis is placed on media program and project descriptions, rather than reports of completed research. The review points to trends of common media use and student performance and tries to shed some light on the general direction of future media efforts for the…

BECAUSE THE LAST DECADE HAS BEEN A PERIOD OF MORE INTENSE EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION THAN ANY PREVIOUS PERIOD IN HISTORY, A NATIONAL STUDY WAS MADE TO DETERMINE HOW SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAVE CHANGED. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DISTRIBUTED TO 10,266 REGIONALLY ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES, AND 7,400 RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED. THE SAMPLE POPULATION…