In Milwaukee, Wisconsin educational administrators recognized and accepted the existence of change in society as a positive force. Programs developed for elementary secondary education in Milwaukee are described. (CJ)

Noncredit humanities seminars presented by North Carolina State University to diverse adult audiences throughout the state are described. The purpose of the program is to bring together small groups of people to discuss humanistic issues in a format that reflects the intellectual background and discipline of a university. (Author/MLW)

The Statements about Schools Inventory, designed to assess how well a school is satisfying the needs of its students, has gathered evidence that alternative schools come closer to satisfying student needs than do conventional schools. (Author/WD)

The destinies of cities and their universities are seen as inextricably linked. The fate of society depends to a great extent upon the university's ability to fulfill its unique role to give new meaning to the quality of urban life in this country. (MLW)

Fifty-five college women enrolled in competency-based, humanistic, or self-directed educational programs listed reasons for program selection and completed personality inventories. The results question the assumption that different programs are for different personality types and suggest perceptions of purpose as more important factors. (MSE)

Surveys from 1971 to 1975 of knowledge and awareness of the Open University among the general public are analyzed. Three types of "knowledge" barriers were identified: lack of awareness of existence, lack of knowledge of special characteristics and "openness," and lack of knowledge of the range of courses. (MLW)

Looking at the emotional and academic needs of the chronically disruptive student, the author proposes a temporary alternative class, emphasizing self-esteem development and individualized instruction, as the best programmatic solution. (SJL)

Discusses factors to be considered by community colleges in building continuing education programs that enhance the job satisfaction of workers. These factors include job satisfaction influences, effective education of adult learners, learner and teacher responsibility, alternative instruction format, recognizing job values, and obstacles to adult…

Renewed Expectations for Adults in Continuing Higher Education (Project REACH) provides educational services tailored to the needs of blue-collar workers, including courses on audiocassette tapes and simplified registration procedures. The program has been enthusiastically received by people who had faced many barriers to continuing education. (SK)

The Learning Exchange System, or Learnxs, was created in Toronto in 1973 as a three-year demonstration project concerned with the use of informal community-based learning resources for individual and group learning. The system produced a detailed directory of organizations, places, and individuals which could offer learning experiences. (JN)

Briefly describes South Korea's Air-Correspondence High School (ACHS), an alternative radio/correspondence study program for adolescents and employed adults. Evaluative data is presented comparing ACHS to the regular high school on efficiency, achievement, costs, cost-effectiveness, and social equity. Comparisons are also made to other distance…

The author feels that the current wave of political conservatism may prove beneficial to education if the national mood of decentralization and decontrol leads to a resurgence of community involvement and locally-developed alternatives. He cites several examples of successful urban alternative schools. (SJL)

An alternative school for problem students in New York City successfully uses both diagnosis of individual learning styles and learning materials designed to respond to individual learning style differences. The students help each other overcome negative behaviors in the school they helped create. (Author/MLF)

Examines a list of nine awarenesses, or recognitions, that must undergird any search or realistic hope for confident education, which has two dimensions: sound and effective education and the way people feel about that education. (Author/IRT)

This article enumerates the implications of the Bakke case for the American educational system and presents alternatives that include the development of an educational system beginning in kindergarten that prepares minority students for professional schools. (JMF)