Latin American women are examined in terms of their traditional, economic, and educational roles, and functional literacy programs in Ecuador and Venezuela are described. (LH)

A discussion of education and educational opportunities for women in Arab States includes formal education and literacy (examining formal education, primary school enrollment, and women's illiteracy) and non-formal education (examining a Saudi Arabian literacy program, joint action by Arab States, and the Arab Literacy and Adult Education…

Environmental education can provide information for better management of energy and resources. It must make people aware of society's abilities to find solutions to environmental problems. This requires presenting the dynamics of ecological principles and emphasizing environmental values and attitudes as well. (MR)

Presents the winners in the 38th Annual Science Talent Search and how the forty 18-year old students were chosen from among 980 contestants from 18 states and Singapore. Their names, and some of their activities and interests are also presented. (HM)

Presents three science programs developed as special topics courses at one of the two-year regional campuses of the Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Valley. The authors outline these programs in biology, physics and chemistry to illustrate their plasticity for program development and experimentation. (HM)

Bilingualism has developed in response to a great many social, economic, political, and cultural needs, and the responses have emerged in a variety of societies stretching back millenia. Recent bilingual programs in America continue this historical tradition of dealing with more than one language in a society or region. (Author/EB)

The article focuses on the mainstreaming trends resulting from Public Law 94-142 and other legislation requiring that regular school systems accommodate their programs to handicapped students. Topics of concern in restructuring schools and programs include individual assessment and placement, consultation, social skills, and programmatic…

Manitoba's first School Act in 1871 placed the administration of schools under a Board Of Education, divided into a Protestant and a Catholic Section. In 1890 the Manitoba Liberal government led by Thomas Greenway abolished the board and placed education under a department of education. Discusses the developments that led to that change and the…

The chairman of the National Commission on Allied Health Education, an independent body, discusses a study to be made by the Commission of the growth in the allied health field and changes in allied health education that will be necessary in the next decade. He notes the issues to be addressed, task forces to work on the problems, and the…

Two headteachers/principals give their perspective on the development of middle schools specifying five areas of development. As well, a University of Southampton administrator provides his opinion of the quality of England's middle schools. (RK)

Over 400 Appalachian Kentuckians participated in a three-day conference June 19-21 at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and drew up recommendations designed to help the economy of Appalachian Kentucky develop in the way that will benefit to the maximum extent the largest possible number of its citizens. (AUTHOR)

The article reacts to and expands a symposium on the desirability of a transition from the traditional diagnostic-remedial model to the teacher-consultant model for providing services to children with "mild learning and behavior problems." (Author)

Credited to the quality of leadership provided by the superintendent, the school board, and the professional staff, Pascagoula's sound, many-faceted, and highly regarded school program stresses skills in reading, mathematics, and language arts, in the elementary schools and offers three types of curricula (college preparatory, general education,…

Proposes ways in which developing nations can adapt engineering education to their specific national needs. (Author/SL)