In an effort to improve the quality of basic business courses at Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio), an experimental program was developed which featured presentations by prominent businessmen on the functions of their operations. (RN)

Suggests that secondary students in agriculture should be involved in the elementary education programs. (SB)

Discusses the Yellow Pages of Learning Resources'' (MIT Press), a catalog to using the city as a classroom. (MB)

The materials and resources listed in this bibliography relate to elementary and secondary school movements, free schools and to students and education involved together in social change and education. (49 references) (Author/NH)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English. (RD)

Report on the Indiana University Program in religious studies that prepares secondary English teachers to teach the Bible as literature. (Author)

Speech given before the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (22nd, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 1969)

Briefly discusses the nature of networks and outlines the functions and services performed by networks within the educational community. Specific emphasis is placed on the importance of networks to libraries and other organizations which are providers of educational information. A seven-item bibliography is included. (JL)

Describes two new information services made available through Bibliographic Retrieval Services (a provider of online computer search services) which respond to the demand among educators for access to practical information on instructional activities, materials, and administrative practices. The design and operation of the services are discussed.…

Utah State University is concentrating on resource sharing in its technical agriculture and agricultural teacher preparation programs in order to cope with declining enrollments and resources. (SK)

Discusses the nonexistence of explicit reference to the learner's mental, linguistic, and cultural universe in traditional methods of teaching a foreign language and proposes teaching techniques that will facilitate the integration of the learner's local environment in the foreign language class. (AMH)

An analysis is made of the cost effectiveness of school health services and their ultimate benefits to the school health care system. The cost of health services is calculated against the various types of services provided to students. (JN)

The importance of the following is demonstrated: (1) striking a balance between the attention given to resource allocation practices at macro compared to microlevels of decision making; and (2) learning more about how resource allocation decisions made at one level affect practices at other levels of the educational system. (Author/GK)