One urgent practical problem faced by speech communication educators is the need to educate students with a serious concern for their subsequent employability. The shrinking academic job market for speech communication graduates is a reality with which speech communication educators must be concerned. Speech communicators are beginning to ask…

This report was written as a companion piece to "Increasing the Impact of Innovative Projects," proceedings of the national conference on the impact of federally-administered vocational education exemplary projects. Brief descriptions of the project's accomplishments, major activities and events, problems, publicity activities, and dissemination…

This report of the American Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Intergovernmental Conference on Teacher Policies is a six-part document presenting: (1) names and affiliations of the U.S. delegates; (2) an executive summary; (3) the OECD Conference Report; (4) report of the first post-conference meeting of…

The development of a curriculum review mechanism, the Curriculum Interaction Model (CIM) and how it is being used for academic planning and management purposes at two distinctly different institutions, the State University College of New York at Buffalo and Barnard College of Columbia University, is described. The CIM is a quantitative academic…

A summary of the content of a national conference on career education as a cooperative effort is presented in this report. Included are descriptions of career education practices now in existence, summaries of sessions related to conceptual efforts and technical skills required for career education, and comments from various critics of career…

Reports on the progress made in Nigeria in the area of French curriculum development and teacher education. (AM)

Due to greater financial burdens, further cooperation and coordination between Swiss universities is proposed. (DE)

Examines changes in student values and the apparent policy implications which alterations have for postsecondary education in the United States today. (Author/KE)

Argues that the educational system assumes it must prepare students for a highly competitive work society, although the necessity for competition will decline as material necessities and luxuries are increasingly available; as society moves towards a leisure civilization and an equitable distribution of goods, change from competititon to…

Customized lessons for 310 students add up to a boggling bookkeeping job, but Project PLAN in Winona, Minnesota, ticks it off with dispatch. (Editor)

In an attempt to reduce the impact of a child's disabilities the Master Plan was developed in order to equalize opportunities for all children in need of special education services. (Author/RK)

A five-year plan for full implementation of the metric system in Denver, Colorado is described. The focus of the plan is inservice work with teachers from the 23 schools. (SD)

It is incumbent on education leaders to cope with the situation to the best of their abilities by diminishing their demands for federal funding within public education. (Author)

We must and we can find alternatives in order to survive in our shrinking environment. It is sure that public education can only progress--it is likely that this is the only way it can survive--if we find new ways of cooperation during the next several years of sparse resources. (Author)

The President of the Institute of International Education examines issues raised by the possibility of a large inflow of students from the Middle East and other wealthy and developing nations, noting the opportunity to contribute to the development of other nations and the responsibilities that it entails. (JT)