In an information society, a computer literate populace is as important as energy is to an industrial society. Other nations have begun the task of restructuring their systems to include computers and unless the United States begins soon, the next crisis in American education will be the computer literacy crisis. (Author)

"The Search for a Scientific Profession: Library Science Education in the U.S. and Canada," which professes that American library education has not shown a constant improvement, is seen to be an unscholarly work containing unsupported generalizations, quotations out of context, unsatisfactory methodology, and which fails to utilize more…

Theoretical issues concerning change and the phenomenon of resistance are highlighted in this analysis of opposition observed during in-service training of high school and junior high school counselors. Behavioral examples are examined with reference to principles found in current change theory for the would-be change agent. (Author)

Examines conceptual problems related to the implementation of higher education reform, including those concerning the relations between planned and unplanned change, the gap between formal reform goals and actual results, and the link between policy formulation and policy implementation. Provides specific examples of these problems in higher…

The purpose of this study was to develop models that could demonstrate those relationships between factors in the instructional development process that affect the success of the overall project; however, the data generated cannot support such models at this time. Implications for developers are discussed. (Author/JEG)

Vocational Rehabilitation in Guam has had its problems keeping its public aware of its services and willing to use them. Describes its efforts to change that situation in favor of positive feelings about accepting services. (RK)

Gives an overview of some of the more significant events in the Canadian studies movement, their impact and the next needed steps. (Editor/RK)

For some time now Dutch universities have been involved in development problems and development cooperation. Describes the Program for University Projects of Development Cooperation, initiated in 1969, and its contribution to developing countries. (Author/RK)

Considers the differences between American and British school systems as well as their problems. (RK)

Records some rather different impressions of the Chinese school system from those of many foreign visitors. (Editor)

From the experiences of five other countries, the United States can pick up some tips in its current effort to discard the yard in favor of the meter. (Editor)

Although the middle school was heralded as a partial answer to the unrest and rebellion of the past two decades, much as the junior high was in the early part of this century, neither organization has proved to be a panacea for the ills of the nation's schools. (Author)

Describes experimental village institutes whose goal was to develop and maintain the village, to help transform it into a modern village so that Turkey's pattern of development would not follow the European model of urbanization. (Author/IRT)

Relates how the Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) came together and worked together to develop guidelines on English and language arts teacher education which will stand from 1996-2006. Discusses getting from drafts to a published document. (PA)

An individual's participation in school can be analyzed on four levels--the individual, the team, interteam coordination, and management of the school's interaction with the environment. These levels represent different intensities of participation and degrees of complexity in an individual's commitment. This paper explores each level and…