A Head Start Program should foster an ethically valid situation. Such a situation would encourage the physical, mental, social, emotional and ethical growth and development of the four-year-old with due concern for his needs, interests and special potentialities. (Author)

An evaluation of the successes and failures of performance contracting in a Gary, Indiana, school. (RA)

Through the use of the Bell Telephone Telecture, students and teachers have the opportunity to question statesmen directly about their points of view." (Authors)

Discusses costs of data collection, collation, retrieval, dissemination, use and removal. Proposes a normative framework for setting budgets, evaluating and matching the costs and benefits of information. (Author)

The Director of Television for the Inner London Education Authority discusses the experience gained and lessons learnt after eighteen months of transmission on the Authority's educational television network." (Editor)

To determine the degree to which PLAN (Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs) goals were attained, and to compare PLAN with a more conventional educational program used in control classes, the critical incidents method was used. PLAN goals are development of student self-responsibility, self-management, and resourcefulness. (NH)

A description of Educational Development Laboratory's approach to performance contracts. (JF)