Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (GB)

Mushrooming space-age industry rocketed this high school into an industrial arts program suited to a community of professional and highly skilled workers. (Editor)

Discusses the one-sided rules and attitudes in schools which may inhibit learning, and how to recognize and circumvent them. Children should have a broad continuum between a soft" or permissive school, and a hard" or strict curriculum, and will choose the place on this continuum where they learn best. (DM)

Compares designs of 16 schools, and provides comparative statistics on costs, area figures, space characteristics, and equipment types. (JF)

The program's director describes how he teaches his students to train their peers to use their high school's television equipment, thus giving himself more time to work with other teachers on integrating television into the curriculum. (LS)

Described is a project in which five schools in the Boston area joined forces to buy their own computers in order to reduce the cost of using the machines. (LS)

Discussion of proper thermal environment for protection of sophisticated educational equipment such as computer and data-processing machines, magnetic tapes, closed-circuit television and video tape communications systems.

This discussion of microcomputer selection for schools presents three hypothetical plans--ranging from $500 to $15,000--for establishing an educational computing program and examines the best way to budget the money. Purchasing information on a variety of microcomputers is included. (JJD)

A brief guide on how to choose a microcomputer for use in the schools. Microcomputer components, applications, and programing languages are discussed. (JJD)

Describes the use of the microcomputer to teach reading readiness skills to three- and four-year-old children at the North Texas State University Nursery School. (JJD)

Ways that microcomputers can help educate disabled children are discussed. Three kinds of computer applications are explored: (1) special purpose equipment for particular physical handicaps; (2) standard equipment which can be easily modified; and (3) software for use with physically, mentally, or emotionally handicapped children. (PP)