This collection of nine essays includes three from each of the contributing groups--elementary school, middle school, and high school students. Titles include "Libraries for the People and by the People,""How the Library Helps Us,""Improvements Since the Library Company of Philadelphia," and "Today's Library--A Place for All Seasons." (JAB)

THIS IS A GRADED INTERMEDIATE READER INTENDED FOR STUDENTS WHO WANT TO FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH 20TH-CENTURY URDU PROSE. THE TEXTS INCLUDE SELECTIONS FROM FOLKLORE LITERATURE, NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, LITERARY AND HUMOROUS ESSAYS, ANECDOTES, LETTERS, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS, AS WELL AS SPEECHES AND NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS. THE WRITERS…

INTENDED FOR INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL STUDENTS, "PART 1" OF THIS SECOND VOLUME IN THE "CONTEMPORARY ARABIC READERS" SERIES PRESENTS A COLLECTION OF 20 ESSAYS WRITTEN BY OUTSTANDING ARAB LITERARY FIGURES. SUBJECTS RANGE FROM POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARAB WORLD TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REFORMS IN AGRICULTURE AND THE WRITING SYSTEM. THE…

This book is a collection of 11 essays that present the experiences and views of individuals who have played major roles in large-scale curriculum development projects. The opening chapter examines conceptions of curriculum, provides an overview of the curriculum reform movement since 1950, looks at some persistent dilemmas facing the curriculum…

For use by junior and senior high school English teachers and students in search of appropriate subjects for written compositions, this publication contains 1,237 topics compiled from a questionnaire sent to about 250 teachers. The topics are divided into categories: personal reminiscences, personal reactions, the familiar essay, description,…

This is the report of a seminar assembled to develop ideas and stimulate interest in the study of the intersection between the social sciences and moral theory with respect to how formal schooling functions in the process of moral and civic education. The report consists essentially in the production of the papers produced for the seminar, in the…

Four perspectives of the changing role of the college presidency, given at the 1973 Summer Council of Presidents of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, are presented in this report. Various issues are discussed including the role of the president, educational finance, coordination, and governance. (MJM)

This document reports the impressions of members of the Educational Leadership Seminar concerning education in Great Britain. Articles cover education in England (decisionmaking), the National Union of Teachers, community schools in England, the Schools Council for curriculum and examinations, the College of Further Education, the British…

This document presents articles concerned with curriculum, graduate and professional education, and finance. Articles discuss the changing college curriculum; the academy and general education; Pennsylvania's "state-owned" institutions, some dimensions of degree output; the quality of graduate studies in Pennsylvania and other selected…

Six papers are presented concerning the trends and issues in interinstitutional cooperation. Topics cover national cooperative trends, case study in starting a consortium; consortia and institutional change, library networks and what to expect, higher education management, financing higher education in Pennsylvania, and making more states more…

This essay was written in response to requests for a summary of the author's current thinking on college and university trusteeship based on his long experience as consultant to trustee boards and trustee behavior. Among his conclusions are the following: (1) Higher education trustees set the goals for the institution, assure a distinctive…

The common theme running through this collection of essays is that perhaps the most significant thing about contemporary professional education is the great increase in the amount of theory and practical skill to be taught and learned. Chapters cover professional education in medicine, professional education in law, systems of theological…

This document presents four articles concerning content analysis. The first article reviews content analysis as a research tool for higher education. Content analysis, a research methodology eminently well-suited to legislation prediction, is examined in the second article. The third article, the characterization of American student dissent in…