The similarities among comprehensive high schools in the United States promote equity and social integration rather than educational excellence. Increased specialization would encourage competition for students and provide schools with a sense of mission, two factors critical to developing strong faculties committed to improving education. (PGD)

The relationship between the diverse problems of funding, administration, and enrollment programs on the one hand and specific curricular and instructional programs on the other are discussed. Enrollment declines in the humanities reflect changes in political economy. (MLW)

Formal education in civics should not stop with high school but should continue in collegiate general education. As liberal individualism among faculty at research-oriented universities has flourished, education for citizenship has nearly vanished. (PP)

Purpose of Study: This paper seeks to explore the relationship between career aspirations (CA) and academic achievement (AA) for business management technicians (BMTs) from state-run technical institutions (SRTIs) in The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. Methodology: For the purposes of this study, AA was defined as "task…

Paper reports some of the early findings of a study of subject specialization at school based on postal questionnaires completed by 200 former grant recipients. (Author)

Suggests training for law students for different types of legal careers in order to promote efficiency and higher quality of legal services to the public and provide more satisfying career choices for students. Utilization of paraprofessionals is discouraged because of the nature of the law profession. (LP)

Defines features of primary care practice which cause physicians to change to alternative careers. (IR)

Explains how our "technocratic society is helping to "pollute education; based on a speech given at meeting of Oregon Association of School Librarians and Media Specialists, October 4, 1969. (Author/SW)

Condensed from "The Schools and the Challenge of Innovation, published by the Committee for Economic Development, New York City (1969), 110-125.

Assessment of the conception, professional preparation, and execution of the International Conference on Educational Planning held at Unesco House in Paris, August 1968. A criticism of the preparatory document. (Author)

Based on a paper presented at a meeting of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors.

Paper presented at the Council of Academic Societies Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2-5, 1968.

In the future, colleges should educate students broadly, so that they will be knowledgeable and flexible enough to live in a society that will demand adaptability. Interdisciplinary and integrated curricula, rather than narrow specialized studies, are needed to prepare such students. (PP)

Patterns of degree selection in 1970-71 and 1978-79 are compared with each other and with that of men. The rate at which women's representation in a field changes is judged by an index of rate of change, and the redistribution of women among fields is analyzed. Possible explanations are offered. (MSE)