New Jersy has vocational training programs for students who are not suited for traditional academic education. (RA)

Edited version of a keynote speech delivered at the opening general session of the Third Annual Meeting of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on November 28, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (DS)

Twenty-five hundred chapters, all doing their own thing for school, community, and to prepare members for business careers. (Editor)

The nature of materials produced by social science projects are examined with respect to the spectra of opinion about what the social studies should be. The author concludes that these cool" materials (value-free social science through guided inquiry) belong in the midst of investigation of controversial issues. (JB)

This is the text of the Damon lecture which the author presented as the keynote address on the theme of the 1970 NSTA Annual Meeting. The great world problems of over-population, hunger, environmental pollution, and war and peace are discussed. The relationships between science, technology, and society are reviewed. The author asserts that…

Reviews the role of science and technology in improving the conditions of human living and suggests some ways of improving the quality of life. Modern youth is complimented for having raised important moral issues. The role of science educators in presenting science to students in a meaningful way is discussed. (LC)

An argument is presented in favor of adopting community control of local schools. This would place the schools in the hands of the particular ethnic group most heavily represented within a given system and would prevent suppression of minority group cultures for the sake of prosletyzing middle class ideas. (CK)

Characterizes avant-garde nihilists as betrayers of their own humanness. (RD)

The authors propose a model of a family community school using the immediate neighborhood as the locus of activity and the school as a problem solving center where individuals of all ages and families of all kinds join together, using their own resources with others to solve everyday educational and social problems for mutual benefit. (Author)

Social pollution provides the matrix for the pollution of the physical environment. This stems from man's present inability to function synergistically. To find new freedoms in purposeful evolution, we will have to start cleansing our Mind. (Author/SD)

"Humanities do something deeper than teach. They exercise our emotions, they discipline them, they give us patterns of excellence against which we can measure our own achievements... They ask questions." It is essential that our educators recognize the value of a broad humanities program. (Author/JL)