Students expressed their feelings about the value of art experience at a continuation, alternative high school in a culturally deprived community. (Author/RK)

Reports on a study that tested whether the decision on the school that freshmen in Catholic high schools went to was made primarily by the students or the students' parents has an effect on the students' commitment to the school. (Author/IRT)

Since the primary objective of individualized instruction is to match instructional patterns with learning styles, five alternative learning style patterns are examined. (DE)

This article discusses reforms made in the Minneapolis Public School System. (JS)

Still valid today, the 85 "Theses" from the 1971 Assembly on University Goals and Governance opened with an emphasis on equality of higher educational opportunity. Emphases in the future should also include diversity and differentiation of institutions, comprehensive curricular reform, and absolute commitment to lifetime learning. (JH)

This article contrasts the more popular educational reforms of the 1960's with reform movements occurring earlier in the century. Included in the article are discussions on the neo-classical university model, the aesthetic-expressive model, the communal-expressive model, and the activist-radical model. (Author/DE)

A number of recent studies in the United Kingdom have developed academic staffing formulas on the basis of the institution's teaching commitment rather than on its recruitment of students. It is concluded that these formulas are useful more as situation analysis tools than as resource allocation devices. (Author/WM)

Rational selection of educational resources is a necessary step to effective teaching. Four criteria to consider in selection are the instructional objectives to be achieved by students, the resources available for use, the characteristics of students to be taught, and the teacher's ability and preferences. (Author)

Covers camping out for credit; racing for credit; choosing from the seven "schools" in Quincy (Illinois) High School; and developing the Colorado College block scheduling plan under which students take only one course at a time. (Author)

In this excerpt from an article, several common misunderstandings about bilingual education are discussed. Topics in the article concern: "what bilingual education is NOT"; "what unconscious factors undermine bilingual education"; "what negative effects are provided by federal funding"; and "the future of bilingual education". (SW)

Nontraditional study is defined as humanistic education and examined in light of nine major issues and alternative resolutions. Issues included: public acceptance, institutional changes needed, utilizing community resources, admission policies, financing, faculty participation, program articulation, assessment, individualized instruction, teacher…

Gives suggestions to unemployed teachers on where and how to find available positions. Also discusses where to find information and who to talk with about alternatives to teaching. (PC)

While the streets provide the basic orientation to life for the black child, the curriculum is essentially self-defeating. New alternatives must be provided for black youth, organized around Pan-Afrikan concepts of social traditions and family, aiming to facilitate youth's transition to true adulthood. (EH)

It is necessary to shift our concerns from establishing black independent schools that are relevant and temporary to developing institutions that will become excellent and permanent forces in the struggle for black liberation. (EH)