In continuation of previously published lists of centennial dates in the history of education, the writer presents the following groups of significant dates for 1974, significantly and briefly. (Author)

Description of attempts to coordinate efforts to furnish higher education to a population living in scattered islands.'' (Editor)

Discussed the latest developments in curriculum change, student activism, financial problems, higher education, racial attitudes, church-state-school controversy, and textbook use in the United States in 1974. (RK)

Article evaluated the impact of Soviet education on that of the United States. (Author/RK)

Urban studies departments are generally aimed toward synthesizing social science knowledge about the urban phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the assumptions underlying this new attempt by economists, sociologists, and other social scientists to build a synthesis of social science knowledge upon man's urban condition.…

The explosion of knowledge is accompanied by implosions in the form of theories which simplify knowledge and make it easier to learn and use. (Editor)

Article evaluated the educational record of 1975 for both the United States and the world. (RK)

The purpose of this essay is not to answer why the educational upheaval of the late 1960's came and went so quickly, but to establish two opposite models of student attitudes and behavior in order to identify students within these two extremes. (Author/RK)

Discusses the growing uneasiness among Africans about their educational systems in spite of the fact that virtually all African governments have committed large percentages of their national budgets to education. (GB)

Article discussed the nature and future of educational futurology and took a brief glance into the history of the idea of futurism (or futuristics) in general, and in education in particular. (Author/RK)

Article provides a sketch of a university designed to furnish more basic forms of higher education in a milieu which is characterized by an international staff, clientele, content, and instruction. (Author/RK)

Article considers the policy of decentralization in Israel and the problems of implementation. (RK)

This essay has defined the goals which presidents of private institutions believe private higher education should achieve. (Author)

Education has long been a ward of religious organizations, in relatively recent history the state has been taking over the responsibility for it, and it may now be time for the business world to run higher education. (Author)

The shape of all future and social structures may be determined largely by the emergence of a new kind of individual. (Editor)