This article deals with education aid and the need for re-evaluation of needs for educational advance, the unique contribution made by the United Nations as an international organization, and the effectiveness of its machinery to assure the coherence of contributions to educational development. (JH)

It was a crude structure, chopped out of the wilderness, but it exemplified for higher education the Spirit of '76. (Editor)

The Report of the International Commission for the Development of Education has been described as a turning point in the development of education. Since the turning point there is a new perspective for viewing education as an organized, partially organized, and even unorganized human activity. Discusses that perspective. (Author/JF)

The role of tutors is becoming increasingly important in preventive medicing correspondence courses in China's health program. (JR)

Article focused on the effect of international professional migration as that migration raises critical questions of appropriate human resource utilization for economically progressive and politically automnomous development in Canada. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated the impact of Soviet education on that of the United States. (Author/RK)

Although rigid in their allegiance to tradition, urban schools are slowly making progress toward meeting society's changing needs, this principal says. But time is running out and change must become accelerated. (Editor/RK)

A discussion of Japan's NHK from the perspective of WETA's (Washington) director of production. (HB)

Educators who have to develop proposals must be concerned with making effective decisions. This paper discusses a number of educational systems management tools which can be used to reduce the time and effort in developing a proposal. In addition, ways are introduced to systematically increase the quality of the proposal through the development of…

Breaking with past conceptions of change as a pendulum swing based upon dichotomies, this paper offers a model which depicts change as sequential, emergent, and transformational. Patterns of change identified in the fields of technology and science are also identified in the field of education, and a three stage paradigm depicting transformational…

This paper proposes a strategy for in-house evaluations in the context of an educational research and development facility. The obstacles in conducting an evaluation of colleagues' programs are discussed; these fall into two categories. First, there is a set of problems that relate to conflicts inherent in judging the work of a colleague without…

This volume reproduces a sample of Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (SWRL) Technical Notes and Technical Memoranda produced in 1972 dealing with natural language analysis and student-instruction interaction facets of the organization's computer-based research effort. Part I contains three papers describing…

The document presents an historical review and a description of the 5 tribes--Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Sarcee, Gros Ventre, Kootenay--which inhabited what now comprises the prairie provinces of Canada. The arrival of the Europeans, traders and explorers, missionaries, and other settlers brought about many changes in the Indian culture, and these…