Presents the author's observations on the growth of continuing education, problems of definition, the identification of its constituency, and the status of continuing education programs in the academic world. (SK)

A study of nontraditional education conducted by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation emphasized the need for the development of reliable means of evaluating educational achievements and learning outcomes and the necessity for accrediting agencies to assume leadership in this process. (SK)

Discusses the need for the development of training programs that will provide persons with marketable skills. Describes a 1979 study of the posttraining employment status of graduates of institutions for the culturally, socially, or economically disadvantaged. (JOW)

Describes and argues for the California Initiative for Family Choice, a voucher plan proposed for the state of California. (IRT)

An alternative educational program that is highly structured, closely supervised, and appropriately staffed is proposed for the chronic disruptive student. (Author/MLF)

Many of the problems facing secondary schools today can be solved, this paper says, by negotiating learning contracts with students. Presented here is a model for shared accountability. (Author)

A critic of innovation, change, and experimentation in higher education discusses nontraditional delivery systems and the pitfalls of being a critic. Quality and standards of education are discussed along with the accrediting process and abuses in nontraditional delivery systems. (MLW)

The many uses and effects of a magnet school are discussed. (LH)

Discusses a study to evaluate pedagogical alternatives for teaching social studies (particularly geography) to adolescents. Topics discussed include individualized learning, learning from resources, autonomous pupil learning, and competing ideologies of education. (Author/DB)

Discusses alternatives to affective education, concentrating on multimodal education and its implications for the classroom. Areas of multimodal education described are behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, and interpersonal relations; and drugs, diet and physiology. (Author/NRB)

Evidence suggests that a middle school organizational design has some administrative advantages over the traditional junior high school program because of the more unified social and academic atmosphere. (LH)

Dean Jerome Ziegler of Cornell University asserts that economic stresses may force the consolidation of many American colleges and universities. He suggests ways that federal aid could be used to support diversity in our system of higher education. (SJL)

Discussion of nonformal, postsecondary education for adult learners in developing countries points out problems of facilities, teaching techniques, technology, resource materials, unemployment and economic absorption of educated adults, vocational education, and evaluation methods. (ND)

The paper is a study of bilingual/bicultural education in the process of Anglo American educational technology and an overview showing some of the important problem areas: inadequate concern with sociocultural variables affecting Mexican American educational attitudes; assumptions of homogeneity regarding Mexican American students; immediate…

New York City's School of Performing Arts offers a high quality college preparation and fine arts curriculum despite financial and physical plant inadequacies. (MB)