Presents an alternate form of undergraduate education, the non-traditional degree program, which was designed to serve the educational needs of adults. (Author/RK)

Considers current educational systems irrelevant for the future because they are oriented to an age and a society which no longer exists: education for the future must develop technical competencies, educate for personal self-realization, and develop tolerance for change and alternative life styles. (Author/JM)

Describes the type of organization known as a charrette; relates its effects to the larger social process, and examines some aspects of the technical and advisory roles of mental health consultants participating in this process, making recommendations where needed. (Author/JM)

The extracts from the main conclusions and recommendations of a report of an international commission to study the problems of education in the world are discussed and, as well, attendant educational strategies. (Author/RK)

At Boston State College, a class in metropolitan studies became a student-faculty research team for the institution's master planning. (Author)

Basic to the viewpoint developed in this article is the belief that educators are committed to advancing their insights into creative and effective planning processes. Educators, committed to the process of problem-solving, can then advance knowledge and redesign educational environments. (Author/HB)

The complexity of what is involved in the rational planning of higher education is apparent only when the problems of allocation of resources between higher education and other economic activities are considered jointly with those relating to internal efficiency. (Author)

A discussion of a possible program of career education in the elementary and secondary grades by the Deputy Commissioner for Occupational and Adult Education in the Office of Education. (JM)

Discusses the model programs and research activities of NIE in career education: the Institute sees career education as being concerned with fundamental education-related processes by which people select, prepare for and are retrained for increasingly satisfying jobs and careers. (Author/JM)

Discusses some issues which are relevant to considerations of what career education is supposed to be. (JM)

Debates over academic standards have not settled any educational problems but have stimulated thinking on the quality of higher education. (DS)

Teachers help children to experience art by challenging their fifth graders with the responsibility of an art project. (Author/RK)

Comprehensive Statewide planning requires a change to a more open political style that will enlarge the opportunities for educators to exert their leadership in the mix of politics and planning. Wider discussion of objectives, more realistic appraisals of education's role as a state resource, and reaching essential agreements with political…