Discusses the use of the vidicon as a means of developing student motivation in language programs. (RL)

Claims that educational planning has largely ignored the need for rational approaches to goal elimination and program curtailment. Presents criteria to guide goal selection and discusses the setting of optimal target levels. (Editor)

A presentation of a model showing how computers can be used in correspondence study. (HB)

Calls for planning, programming, budgeting, and a systems approach in operating school systems to ward off criticisms of school policies. (DS)

The author attempts to predict some of the ways our American public school system may change in the next 25 years. (Author/JN)

The corporate planner must be a motivator and an agent of change. The most elaborate planning system is useless if the people who will have to supply the necessary data and who should cooperate to attain the objectives are not fully motivated. In short, the corporate planner is required to be a good politician. (Author)

Systems analysis principles can be used to attain feedback'' from higher education institutions. (Author/PG)

Understanding and treatment of life stresses comprise a fundamental strategy that must be built into any program to maximize social functioning potential. (DM)

A discussion of Planning Programming Budgeting Systems (PPBS). (MB)

Article is based on material from author's forthcoming book, The Accountability Approach to Effective Music Instruction.'' (Editor/MB)

Although higher education researchers produce the new technology of education, little of it is utilized by higher education. (Editor/HS)

In viewing the library as "a system of complex, interrelated functions, this article is intended to "aid those unfamiliar with libraries to evaluate the degree of automation that has been accomplished and to appreciate the enormous amount of work that remains to be done before the potential of the computer is fully realized in libraries. …