Educational programs must be designed to fit the economic and social needs of an area in order to effectively utilize natural and human resources, thereby encouraging progress and development. (JB)

What appears to be new conceptions in education may really be a new package with a new name, containing the same old product. (Author/MB)

Federal government provides funds for programs which represent innovative attempts to solve educational problems. (Author/MM)

Proposes an integrated program of changes in the educational system to implement a true equality of opportunity for Spanish-speaking Americans. (AN)

Reviews current research on (1) the factors that help development the individual's self-concept, and (2) the effects of self-concept on psychological and educational development. (VJ)

Deals with the educational provisions for young people in England who do not enter higher education. (SB)

Speech given at the Consultation for Educational Justice in New York City by the coordinator of Milwaukee's Federation of Independent Community Schools. Discusses the community schools of Milwaukee and, in particular, their financing problems. (JM)

Revised version of a speech made at the Consultation for Educational Justice in New York City. Proposes that the issue in black education is control of the educational process, and that the quality of education is determined by who runs the schools--ideally, the black communities themselves. (JM)

The difficulties surrounding the efforts to establish adequate educational systems in the developing nations are presented. (CK)

Uses descriptions of two local rural schools to illustrate the problems of developing and legitimizing a general education program in the culturally varied Saami area of Norway. Notes that Saami educational problems include content determination, curriculum organization, materials, and culture conflicts, and are influenced by ethnicity, society,…

Reviews the existing practices and perceptions of professionals in the field of rural education, concentrating on the use of teaching innovations in rural schools, on the need for specialized rural-teacher training, and on the major sources of program dissemination among rural teachers. (JW)

Higher education must revise traditional programs, face the reality of dropping enrollments, fiscal crises, changing educational and social values, different labor and time schedules, rapidly changing knowledge and excessively speedy developments in technology, then make plans for the best, most effective and beneficial use of technology in…