Discusses futurology efforts--future studies, technological forecasts, long-range plans, scenarios of alternative futures. (Author/RK)

Illustrates how fuel selection in large school systems can be based on life cycle costs for fuel and buildings as a total energy/cost package. Cites an example of how such cost data can be used to institute changes in school district fuel use. (Author/DN)

Claims that costs of converting the educational system to metrics can be spread over ten years, and are a one-time expenditure whose benefits are longlasting. Examines textbook replacement, modification of shop equipment and other hardware, training of nonteaching employees, and implications for sports. Stresses the need for longrange planning.…

Describes a master plan which consists of a program and organization built around (1) research and management, and information dissemination; (2) center for educational management; and (3) program development. (Author/DN)

A model for education for development in developing countries is proposed. The author reviews problems of education for rural development. Emphasized is the necessity of internal change in efforts to reconcile the objectives and forms of rural development with the pressures of demographic trends and possible rates of general economics. (SM)

Presents a conceptualization of selected views and opinions on some critical factors--such as Black consciousness, quality education, racial integration, socio-economic influences on learning, and others--which have a direct and major influence on the conduct of public education for Black students. (Author/JM)

The purposes of this article are to give a brief summary of the present scope of career education, its role in the curriculum, and to raise several crucial issues. (Author)

Analyzes existing concepts of career education, finding that none are appropriately responsive to the problems of the society in which the young people we are training will live, and offering a broader concept. (JM)

Study of older people focuses on communication with retired people, the finding that there were considerable differences between normal college-age population and the aged population, and a series of recommendations for planning programs for the aged. (Author/RK)

Report of a conference of the editorial board with German teachers, December 1971, Dusseldorf, West Germany. (WB)

Looks at ways of controlling the size of the German higher education system since it is no longer economically feasible to continue an essentially open admissions policy. (Editor/HS)

The time to debate whether industrial arts is or is not a part of vocational education is past. The question now is what is the role of industrial arts in relation to career education as well as vocational education. (SB)

Addresses the distribution and composition of educational investment among social classes, discussing topics related to equality of educational opportunity, and detailing a plan for financing equal educational opportunity. (JM)

In order to be the primary, revitalized intellectual institution in a free society, the university, through the educational planner, must facilitate an academic environment which is truly humane. (Author/RK)