In a discussion of accountability and performance contracting, the author believes that within a couple of years, performance contracting in its present form will be seen as a rather primitive, simplistic approach to the practice of accountability, but the notion of accountability will continue to be a powerful influence on the educational scene.…

The author critiques parts of the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. He argues that the goals of national supremacy and individual gain ignore the role school could play in altering significant objective conditions of society and the ideology which justified those conditions. (MT)

Author presented a six-point model for purposes of diagnosing program success or lack of success. (Editor/RK)

Article focused on a program that attempted to show parents how to change the context of their environment, provide stimulation and to respond to their child with authority thereby developing the learning process. (Author/RK)

Discussed the movement of educators to develop career education programs which stressed preparation for life roles, career preparation and career development. (Author/RK)

Discussed the Research Coordinating Unit, designed to bring about change in the vocational-technical education system. Utilizing strategies suggested by Rogers and Havelock, a system of consisting of data and information bases, human resources, product utilization coordinators, extension-change agents, and regional resource centers was developed.…

The author, in his motivation research, exuded the feeling that the clinical supervisor, through the correct process of motivating teachers and students, could indeed promote instructional improvement and with it, learning. Through his input-process-outcome model he proposed a better fit between the nature of human motivation and the logic of…

Article focused on the desirability of an organization's developing a rationale for applying technology to instruction and the recognition of the need for the learner to develop a rationale for the use of technology in self-determined learning projects. (Author/RK)

In making the transition between the research and theory on goal structures and the literature on open education, five of the more pervasive themes of open education were discussed. (Author/RK)

This article explores the different conceptions of culture and cultural process and product goals in education to show how liberal education and multicultural education are related. (DF)

This article is intended to accomplish three separate goals: to offer a statement of purpose for MISOE, to suggest implications of MISOE for managers of public education and society at large, and to present a guide for efficient reading of this publication. (Author/RK)

The author's conclusion is that it is much more logical and economically feasible to provide a learning environment with a structured behaviorally stated relevant curriculum where teachers would have the freedom to do the job for which they have been hired rather than to deal with an outside agency. (Author/RY)

A survey of authors of elementary social studies methods texts indicates a lack of agreement on goals for the elementary social studies. Implications of this study are outlined. (JMF)