While hearing impaired students integrating into regular public school classes in the past are said to have usually come from day classes for the hearing impaired, it is recommended that residential schools also program students into public schools on a part-time or full-time basis. (Author)

Author is concerned about the role of work in a technological society; the schools must follow the lead of field teachers in making an appropriate shift in the school from learning to work and to learning outside the school." (Author/SP)

The author describes the most serious problem of drug abuse in the nation's schools. He attempts to describe the role of the school and its responsibility as a preventive agent or deterrent to youthful drug abuse. (Author)

Suggestions for changes in curriculum, school-community relations, and teacher training. (SP)

In order for meaningful change to take place in education, the organizations which can effect this change must orient themselves to accept new ways of doing things. (CK)

Condensed from "The PTA Magazine, LXIII (May 1969), 20-21.

The nature of music, education, and community, and the interactions among these three factors in nineteenth-century Kansas, were studied to determine the role and function of music education in a sociocultural context. (SR)

The author pursues the question of the proper role of public schools in teaching evolution or creationism. He reviews pertinent court battles and legislation and examines the debate about whether evolution and creationism constitute scientific truth or theory. (SK)

The author maintains that John Goodlad's rigid insistence (in an article in this issue) on the school's accomplishment of idealistic and lofty goals is unrealistic and unfair. These goals are merely something to work toward. (JM)

Considers how schools can work with organizations, businesses, and families to involve community volunteers in developing educational policy and fiscal resources and in providing classroom teaching activities. (MP)

It is evident that the economy, science, education, and the computer are interdependent and closely related. The key to success, given interdependence, lies in adopting new educational methods that make computers an integral part of the learning process from kindergarten through the university, so that computers are used daily. (Author/BRR)

To understand the nature of economic/environmental problems, it is necessary to examine some dimensions of the human economic system. Such an analysis can be compared with what might be called the pseudo-economy of a natural system. The "human" system, changing economic scenario, and role of education in solving environmental problems…