Presents the President's report to the 58th Annual Meeting of the NUEA, Omaha, Nebraska, April 15, 1973. (Editor)

Author presents a critical analysis of the Russell Report and believes that to be effective educational objectives must attend to what people want rather than to what it seems they need. (RK)

Reports results of a survey made to determine the attitudes of secondary teachers, secretaries, and administrators on the use of a new grade collecting procedure developed by a local department of information services. (Author)

Congress held April 4-7, 1972. (WB)

Describes the work of a committee of language educators and linguists to coordinate and improve methods of language instruction. (RS)

Discusses papers delivered at the third triennial congress of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee held in Copenhagen. Several papers dealt with current work using computers for language analysis and processing. (Author/RK)

Regression techniques are used to define a method determining when and to what extent technical reports should be collected by college or university libraries. A questionnaire sent to ninety-four libraries and published sources were analyzed and used to predict the number of technical reports a library should have. (4 references) (Author/DH)

Describes a new 4-part grading program being used by a Pennsylvania school district, which provides parents with valuable information about their chilren's school progress. (Author)

Discussed are issues and events which highlighted interest in special education in Australia during 1972. (GW)

The section on research and development (R and D) of the annual report on the chemical industry presents data related to: chemical R and D spending, R and D as per cent of sales, R and D employment, company R and D spending, R and D costs, and all industrial R and D employment. (PR)

Many school systems are experimenting with new ways of reporting pupil progress. This study monitors parent reaction. (Author)