Describes the options available to parents and students within the Milwaukee public school system, which includes traditional school programs along with over 40 citywide speciality schools, such as those focusing on the arts, language immersion, math/science education, and computers, and those focusing on career specialties. (DMM)

Describes the "Walking Teachers" program in Thailand, developed to bring functional literacy to all adults in the community where they live. The walking teachers have three functions: (1) teaching adult functional literacy, (2) overseeing nonformal educational activities, and (3) coordinating rural development activities in general. (CH)

A detailed examination of the per student costs of higher education, stating that distance education can be less expensive than traditional education and, at the same time, be of similar quality. Discusses factors that determine the cost of distance education, noting that increased technological development will increase costs. (GEA)

Describes the university and community perceptions of the role of the university in providing outreach off-campus degree programs, perceptions of the impact of the bachelor of science in nursing program in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the process by which such a program can be identified, negotiated, and conducted. (JOW)

Discusses performing arts high schools that train students in general education and music, visual arts, theater, and dance. Enumerates purposes, advantages (mainly, a challenging and motivating atmosphere with opportunities to concentrate in one area), and problems (funding, understaffing, academic standards, and admission criteria). Advises…

Discusses the history of the National Council of Labour Colleges, the Chartist Movement, and Ruskin College. All were involved in the development of higher education for the labor force. (CH)

Analyzes the role of magnet schools in stimulating and changing linkages between the community and public education. Analyzes the effectiveness of marketing methods such as the following: (1) public relations, (2) student recruiting, and (3) information dissemination. Considers their impact on the community-school relationship. (LHW)

Adults have increasing flexibility in taking advantage of college courses in their homes, since most U.S. public television stations broadcast television courses each semester. Most of the students for television courses are older than traditional college students, female, and employed. (Author/MLW)

Discusses various elements of past and future education: the phenomenon of American schooling oscillating between quality and equality, the boundary between schooling and education, out-of-school education, the power of advertising and the media, family influence, government influence, and the responsibility of adults toward youth. (CT)

For traditional educational institutions, the incentives for technological innovation and its efficiencies are very weak, and the incentives to protect the core arrangement are teaching and prevailing organizational structures are very strong. Computers are creating a need for telecommunications services on campus. (MLW)

The Higher Education Utilization Study conducted in 1979 and 1980 looked at television, radio, and audio. Information about current uses of television and radio by institutions of higher education and opinions about the factors that affect these uses was analyzed. (MLW)

Parent participation in elementary school classrooms provides teachers with a valuable and varied resource, but also requires deeper teacher involvement in students' private lives and skill in managing time. The growth of a parent participation program in Salt Lake City, Utah, proves such programs can succeed. (PGD)

Describes the cooperative efforts of the University of Vermont's Office of Continuing Education and Instructional Development Center to create a program in outreach development support with the goals of developing new program sequences within academic units for nontraditional students and designing those sequences for adoption across the state to…

Reviews literature relating to postsecondary education for learning disabled students. Attributes the scarcity of programs to cost, attitudes, unawareness, and lack of data on incidence and characteristics. To comply with legislation, colleges must do more to accommodate special students. (Author/JAC)

The functions of graduate and continuing education increasingly overlap. Trends favoring continuing education and the implications for graduate education are discussed. (Author/MLW)