Examines difficulties inherent in teaching introductory sociology courses over long distances at a university with an open admission policy. Describes the structure and requirements of the course which accommodates nonresidential students of various levels of ability and educational background. Strategies employed include tutorial group meetings,…

Better nontraditional instructional programs fully utilize five within-school features--the principal, instructional staff, curriculum, testing, and school spirit--so that even inside correctional institutions, education programs look the same as effective traditional schools, conduct their business of schooling in similar ways, and achieve as…

Investigates the management perspectives and the reported practices, priorities, and activities of all federally funded adult basic education programs in New York City. The views of the directors of the funded community-based organizations and those of the managers of the local education agency's program are compared. Recommendations for policy…

Examines a rural field-based inservice delivery system that enhanced intellectual growth, self-concept, and staff communication. Cites problems arising when format changed from workshops to a new M.Ed. program. Notes problems of funding, distance, resources, and university/state requirements. Gives recommendations for making graduate courses…

Project Alternative Rooms, a program developed in the Kansas City (Missouri) schools, provides basic skills instruction to Chapter 1 students using a team-teaching approach with the students and the teachers in alternative classrooms. (MD)

A successful challenge education program at a small private school is described. Students in grades 10 through 12 spend mornings on traditional academic subjects and afternoons on both guided and independent challenge projects. (MJL)

The use of the College Outcome Measures Project (COMP) to compare graduates of traditional and nontraditional programs is described. Results obtained in a study of 96 University of Minnesota graduating seniors suggest greater usefulness in distinguishing among institutions than in comparing outcomes of programs within an institution. (Author/MLW)

Education must develop goals for a global society, rooted in humanistic commitments, and committed to the survival and development of mankind as a whole. (MB)

Discusses the program, students, faculty, alumni, Third World representation and women, government, curriculum, philosophy of education, the contract system, financing, and problems of the graduate school of the Wright Institute, Berkeley. (Author/AM)

The twenty-first in a series of profiles examining the use of instructional technology at 24 institutions, this report describes an alternative system for delivering televised instruction to off campus locations via videotapes carried by private courier or mail. Colorado State was the first university in the nation to use this method. (Author/LBH)

Emphasizes the need for student discipline, fundamental schools, board of education control of the schools, and citizen involvement. (IRT)

Compares student performance in self-scheduled instruction (SSI) and lecture-discussion sections of a college level introductory sociology course, all of which used the same textbook material. Findings indicate that SSI students receive higher mean course grades and demonstrate greater improvement when compared with lecture-discussion students.…

Surveys the field of legal communication in order to determine where Speech Communication teaching and/or research can make the most significant contributions. (MH)

Free schools as an educational form are remarkably similar to the best educational pattern of the culturally more mature countries of the Western world. This similarity should be recognized by U.S. leaders for what it signifies--that free schools are the opposite of disruptive and radical education, and represent the true university. (Editor/LBH)

Educational credentials are used as a yardstick with which to measure the knowledge, skills, and abilities of adults, regardless of actual workplace abilities. With this pressure to earn a credential, adults are returning to higher education in vast numbers. Unlike students in traditional age ranges, adult students have multiple roles they must…