Many college students complain that the education they are receiving is irrelevant. Colleges and universities ought to be intellectual centers rather than academic factories that teach students facts that they could learn by themselves. (CK)

Bio-Med gives evidence that when learning is properly managed, high school students of average ability can master a relatively advanced course in career education. (Editor)

Answers to questions about the system from the experience of one of the first high schools to install it. (Author)

Discussion based upon a model post-secondary two year college program for teacher aides developed under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (Editor)

MMCP evolved from a study of innovative programs in music education in the U.S. (Author)

Urban education must be facilitated by (1) extensive development of teaching material; (2) implementing the possibilities found in discipline-based, issue-based, or student-based curriculum design; and (3) improving instruction: the keystone of the educational program. (JB)

Discusses the development of a program for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders that provides opportunities for students to be active in their language activities, to sample a range of language activities, and to use language in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. (Author)

Article relates the findings of a 1971 National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) study of a series of textbooks, which found the situation unsatisfactory. Author requests that more study be done on the subject. (JB)

Educational reform has not taken place in India because of an unwillingness on the part of the upper social castes to make any changes that would be adverse to their interests. Consequently, ver few members of the lower castes receive any instruction beyond the elementary level. (CK)

It is believed that current demands by the Brazilian establishment to bring about educational reform will result in a better social order for all people and classes in Brazil. (CK)