This 24-minute videotape explores learning and teaching in classrooms where technology has provided an opportunity for change. In the videotape, actual classroom scenes show new roles and relationships for both students and teachers. Educators reflect on the rewards and challenges of a process that has led to fundamental shifts in classroom…

This book attempts to make sense of the dynamics in higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, examining institutions, rules, incentives, and functions. The analysis of the diverse experience of higher education in Latin America is linked to suggestions for policy reform. In particular, the book addresses principal myths that…

Information is one of the most important tools education decision makers need to help them effectively spend taxpayer money, allocate qualified staff, and determine the effectiveness of education investments. Decision makers must understand the role and influence of monetary and staff resources on the education system, and they must have…

Article proposes a multi-phased research and development project designed to produce a computer managed spelling program based upon the theoretical model of spelling behavior postulated by Personke and Yee. (Author)

The development of the Malaysian national educational system is described. An outline of the vocational component of the system is presented with an evaluation of descrepancies between output of the formal educational system and the manpower requirements of the economy. (KM)

The purpose of this article is to identify some characteristics of what the author calls a shadow system, an educational enterprise outside the formal school systems, and to investigate their implications for wider educational policy. (Author/RK)

A February 1973 report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education (California) is the source of this study of adult learning needs. (Editor)

Reflects on the origins and present situation of the National Institute of Education, discusses some priorities which the Institute could address, and makes some suggestions to the professional educational research and development community for the expansion and enhancement of research and development on teaching and learning. (Author/JM)

Argues that educational developments in the South Pacific island communities have been such that education itself has become a war against the people's cultural enrichment, and proposes a possible strategy as an initial step towards reorienting them; the discussion focuses specifically on the Solomon Islands scene. (Author/JM)

Appropriate as the final article in this look at junior high, middle, and intermediate schools claiming exemplary programs is a summary that points out where we are, what we have missed, and where we ought to be going in the Seventies. (Editor)

Some guidelines for facilities for independent learning and instructional development. (Author)

A look at the many developments and movements afoot, bringing us closer to the day of being able to acquire information and knowledge on an instant-demand basis anywhere. (Author)

A general overview of the appropriate role of behavioral objectives in curriculum decisions. (HB)

The writer presents a distillation of observations from her 100-page notebook that reflects what's happening in China's schools. (Editor/RK)

A model for education for development in developing countries is proposed. The author reviews problems of education for rural development. Emphasized is the necessity of internal change in efforts to reconcile the objectives and forms of rural development with the pressures of demographic trends and possible rates of general economics. (SM)