From 1972 through 1975 Austin College conducted a Total Institutional Project that dealt with the fundamental issue of educational roles. The fundamental nature of the changes sought was for students to become more self-directed in their learning, for faculty to become more skilled in facilitating the learning and maturation of students, and for…

The results of this inquiry provide evidence that professional advances in education can be visibly demonstrated through programmatic research and development that produces useful educational products. The first opportunity to test the claim that important instructional outcomes may be reliably attained in a variety of school settings with a wide…

Preparatory to developing a curriculum for parents to use in teaching children how to evaluate the reality and applicability of television in their lives, interviews were held with 13-year-olds and 16-year-olds and adult whites, blacks, and Puerto Ricans around Boston to determine the processes they used to make such discrimination. The…

Many alternative schools established in the late 1960's and early 1970's eventually dissolved or became as traditional as their predecessors. This paper offers an organizational explanation of the failure of alternative schools. The author discusses criteria for identifying alternative schools and suggests a three-stage developmental model…

It is useful to place the development of educational research within the context of the historical development of scientific research as a whole. The work of Whitehead, Northrop, Toulmin, and, especially, Kuhn suggests the value of viewing research as a social process through which ideas and intellectual techniques are diffused. It is useful for…

An investigation was made of research and development needs among various academic and administrative divisions in New York City Community College. Although the primary aim of the investigation was to obtain information related to current research needs in the college, the study was also designed to accumulate information pertaining to the…

This document examines the educational system of Israel, including vocational, teacher, and higher education programs. The basic system involves a 1-year kindergarten program and 8 years of elementary education, which are free and compulsory. Secondary education, usually extending over a period of 4 years, is neither free nor compulsory. Changes…

The program, STORY-LIST, generates alphabetized cumulative word lists by story number within a school grade. It is designed to read a group of cards until it finds a new grade/story number. Each word read is stored in an array, sorted, and an asterisk is added to each word in the array. This array is then merged with the old sorted word list and…

Cause for alarm and need for remedial action is seen in the substantial and continuing increase in racial isolation in New York State schools. This cleavage which exists in other industrialized Northern states, border states and certain cities in the South is responsible for general social unrest as well as racial riots in the high schools. The…

Statistical data for the period 1950-1965, with some data up to 1967, are examined for implications for educational development of the rapidly expanding school-age population in Asia. The quantitative aspects of educational progress comprise the bulk of the review, with qualitative factors discussed in context with future planning. Numerous tables…

The Association for Graduate Education and Research in North Texas (TAGER), interconnects nine colleges and universities over a 2,000 square mile area. Approximately 100,000 post-secondary students and about 5,000 faculty members use on-campus studio classrooms offering credit courses and other academic programs desired by member institutions. The…

This paper presents the findings of a field study designed to examine the management information system (MIS) of an urban school district to determine the role it plays in bringing about educational change in the classroom. The MIS as a type of "guidance system" for change is made up of three specific information loops and a control mechanism…

Renewal was initially designed to consolidate certain of the Office of Education's categorical discretionary programs and put them to work in a limited number of local sites where educational needs of the Country were most pronounced. The Objectives of Renewal were later expanded to include specific performance or achievement gains by children…

Cable television has tremendous potential for human, social, and community development, but this cannot be achieved without planning, in which the needs of the community must be paramount. Both the politics of education and the quality of the educational process must be considered before suggesting futures for cable technology. A significant…

Community education is an eclectic philosophy which combines many desirable features of educational movements of the past and present. In the United States, its evolution occurred in those periods of educational history when forces favoring a close relationship between the community and school were dominant. Periods of rapid development of…