Address given at sectional meeting of the Speech Association of America (Chicago, ILL., December 30, 1968).

LEGISLATORS IN FOUR STATES WERE ASKED THEIR OPINIONS ON THE PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL NEED TO IDENTIFY THE FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THEIR EDUCATIONAL PERCEPTIONS AND THE SOLUTIONS TO SCHOOL PROBLEMS WHICH THEY PROPOSE. EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT INCLUDE ESTABLISHING THE LEGAL STRUCTURE OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, SETTING STANDARDS FOR…

A TWO-PART STUDY WAS CONDUCTED--(1) A HISTORICAL RECORD SURVEY AND CHRONOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF FRENCH EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM 1815 TO 1962, AND (2) AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER WHAT INFLUENCE THESE STRATEGIES HAD ON THE EDUCATION OF A FRENCH COLONY AND TO NOTE CHANGES THAT TOOK PLACE SINCE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COLONY GAINED…

THE PROBLEM OF POOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF CHILDREN WAS PRESENTED. THERE WAS A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. ONE CAUSE OF LOWER LEVELS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG POOR YOUTH WAS THE FACT THAT THEY RECEIVED LESS INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. THEY HAD HIGHER ABSENCE RATES DUE TO POOR…

This paper presents a survey of attitudes held by elementary educators concerning counseling in the elementary schools. A questionnaire was completed by 200 elementary educators in five Wisconsin cities. Participants ranged from special instructors, through kindergarten, primary, and intermediate grade teachers, and principals. Some 94% believed…

The rapidity with which change occurs and knowledge expands requires that teachers constantly review their methods and techniques to ensure that students receive the best education. Teaching involves a series of decisions throughout the instructional process with regard to: a) the objectives of instruction; b) content; c) instructional strategies;…

This study was conducted at the California State University to determine if the utilization of a carefully planned and systematically applied course of instruction could change the attitudes of graduate special education students toward handicapped persons. The focus of the 16-session course was on the handicapped individual as a person and on the…

"Indian Studies and Programs" was designed to provide more and better opportunities for American Indians to enter and to complete college or university education through a graduate-level training program especially designed for college and university personnel who are involved in recruiting, counseling, and teaching Indian college students. The…

This paper discusses the nature of natural and social sciences in order to point out the need for adapting standard logic more appropriately to a design approach. The IDEALS CONCEPT, an acronym for Ideal Design for Effective and Logical Systems, is presented as a move toward a calculus of design methodology with an emphasis on problem orientation…

This study dealt with a group of teachers in one particular untraditional school, Bright Meadows (fictitious name), and surveyed their responses, feelings, reactions to ideology, the environment and the events which constitute the school as a social institution. Data were gathered by means of a series of interviews based on peoples' memories; no…

A study of the relationships between some religious factors and attitudes toward education in a rural community in northern Colorado is reported in this paper. The sample of 105 persons interviewed was drawn from a household population of 556. The data was gathered by means of an interview schedule which included various demographic data, open end…

Article attempted to understand the chronically low or ambiguous status of art in the schools from historical data. (Author/RK)

Article suggested the establishment of a Speaker's Bureau, an educational program designed to foster communication between the school and its community by providing local citizens first-hand information about the schools on a variety of interesting educational issues. (Author/RK)