The reform and reorganization of secondary education in Switzerland is proposed. (DE)

The major requirements for initiating educational statistics in developing nations are described. (DE)

As part of China's educational reform program, poor and lower-middle peasants are being involved in the planning of instruction, reform of course materials, and methods and quality of teaching. (JR)

Article investigated the change in the characteristics of graduates who became teachers during the period, 1860-1955, as a means of providing an unusually long historical record of the pattern of recruitment to school teaching in Scotland. (Author/RK)

This paper was concerned with cross-national comparative studies of selected educational problems in different socialist (communist) systems, called 'cross-communist' comparative studies. (Author/RK)

The history and development of the Laotian education system is described. Emphasis is placed on the transition from a colonial western oriented system to a system that focuses on Laotian cultural identity. (DE)

An innovative international education program designed to provide various countries with an experimental educational laboratory and standardize international secondary education is described. (DE)

The introduction, costs, efficiency, effect on students and teachers, and problems caused by the installation of instructional television into the El Salvador educational system are examined. (DE)

This article discusses education for the rural masses as one of the emerging trends in education in developing countries. (MK)

Synthesizes the results of three previous task force efforts into a list of 25 tasks frequently needed in educational research and evaluation, and the skills and knowledge required to perform them. Tasks listed hold for the late 60's and early 70's. Developments subsequent to 1971 are not considered. (AM)

Article presented suggestions an arts council might use in representing the small community and its area in winning support, and success, for the arts. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the question of whether conservative educational alternatives are the vanguard of a reactionary takeover. (Author/RK)

Educational issues need reexamining, according to this author, to find the proper role for education in a new international economic order (NIEO). In the first part of this essay, the author questions older theories of education and development--which saw education as furthering national development by supplying trained manpower--and discusses…

The success of Philadelphia's "What Works in Reading?" report shows how educational research can be a catalyst for school change and indicates a way for school districts to institutionalize this process. Ten factors were associated with the report's immediate impact on educational policy: identification of the research clients, topical…