This is a comprehensive report to the teaching profession as one basis for a series of town meetings to improve America's schools. Beginning with a survey of the American scene in the 1960's, it considers the role played by the schools in producing a society in which technology has outdistanced humanity. The need to make schools humane…

Colleges of Education need to be viewed as more than a job training institution. Authors suggested the viability of a non-teaching major specialization in the undergraduate study of education. (Editor/RK)

Generalizations or principles which can be taught in a high school course on family living are presented for the following areas: personal development, interpersonal relationships, marriage, parent/child relationships, and family relationships. (EC)

Environmental education can provide information for better management of energy and resources. It must make people aware of society's abilities to find solutions to environmental problems. This requires presenting the dynamics of ecological principles and emphasizing environmental values and attitudes as well. (MR)

Discusses the origins of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., its establishment as an accrediting body in 1952, the effects of change on the association, current problems, its structure and organization and speculations about its future. (Author/RK)

A reconsideration of the author's 1978 book, "Thinking about the Curriculum." Argues that we need, above all, a way of understanding institutions themselves as the necessary context for curriculum deliberation and action. (TE)

This study reports the responses of 202 graduate students and education administrators to an instrument that compared the values respondents used in decision making. The instrument categorized values as personal, organizational, or transcendental. Its usefulness for future research in the field is discussed. (JL)

Argues against the theory of hemispheric dominance and discusses the dangers of developing an educational system based on the false assumptions of two-brain theories. (SRT)

Recommends that, instead of focusing on cognitive and educational issues, early childhood education focus more on the emotional and social characteristics of young children and on how these characteristics interact with cognition and learning. (AS)

A set of principles to guide the planning and implementation of the professional studies component of preservice teacher education programs is identified. Efforts to implement a planned program based on these principles are described. (DF)

Explores some features of early psychology that are implicit in early methods of writing instruction. Includes varieties of early psychology, the Scottish Commonsense philosophy, Alexander Bain's associationist psychology, William James's functionalist psychology, and composition teaching after 1900. (HTH)

Japanese social values make education the central focus of most young people's lives, and make effort the most effective means of achieving success. Japanese education aims at egalitarianism, student motivation, and moral development. Some elements of Japan's educational success may be exportable, but others are too culturally determined. (PGD)

Describes the history of NCTE's positions in educational concerns and asks whether it will survive in the future with significance as an organization. (CRH)

Each brief statement covers the areas of jargon, rhetoric, and humor in political language and how these may be approached in the classroom. (CRH)

In 2004, the American Political Science Association (APSA) named a group of scholars to assess the current condition, problems, and options for improvement in political science graduate education in the United States. While the Task Force found that no single structure of graduate training could be appropriate for the wide range of institutions…