Discusses the development of a program for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders that provides opportunities for students to be active in their language activities, to sample a range of language activities, and to use language in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. (Author)

Article relates the findings of a 1971 National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) study of a series of textbooks, which found the situation unsatisfactory. Author requests that more study be done on the subject. (JB)

Educational reform has not taken place in India because of an unwillingness on the part of the upper social castes to make any changes that would be adverse to their interests. Consequently, ver few members of the lower castes receive any instruction beyond the elementary level. (CK)

It is believed that current demands by the Brazilian establishment to bring about educational reform will result in a better social order for all people and classes in Brazil. (CK)

Aims of conceptual clarity of scope and aims of social studies by offering a definition of social studies as a way of organizing, selecting and teaching content related to citizenship, and by describing the three competing traditions within the social studies. A related article is SO 500 189. (JB)

Presidential address delivered at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) in San Francisco, California, on December 30, 1970. (DS)

A curriculum proposed as a framework for the education of all generalists" practicing in primary health care. (IR)

Two types of curriculum patterns are outlined and suggested: the thematic, which can be either structural or topical, and the regional. International citizenship is proposed as the goal. (DB)

Describes a program in Chicago in which clusters of ethnically similar and geographically close ghetto schools have pooled their resources to create instructional television programs more closely related to the needs of their students than are the programs available through the district wide ITV system. (LS)

The quality of urban education is poor and must be upgraded. The author, Assistant Secretary for Education and United States Commissioner of Education, writes with the knowledge and view of an educator. (CK)