Indicates why selective breeding for intelligence is biologically practical and suggests that positive eugenics is the only answer now available to our need for more intelligence. Procedure does not seem immoral. Quotes H. J. Muller's values to be recognized in eugenic planning." Does not prescribe program. (AL)

Advisory councils in vocational education represent one of the best mechanisms for coping with the impact of science and technology on our economy and on our society at large. (LRA)

Rural gifted students experience similar opportunities and tribulations as those in suburban settings. They often have fewer choices of advanced courses, struggle for access to academic materials, and have transportation problems. However, they have more opportunities to participate in cocurricular activities and experience school as part of…

Obtained information on addiction history, intervention and treatment, and family and community patterns from 221 Catholic Sisters in residential treatment for alcoholism. Findings suggest that, although respondents were similar to other women in their vulnerability to addiction, they carried added burdens because of societal expectations of…

Prevention research and demonstration studies are finding that coordinated prevention efforts that offer multiple strategies, provide several points of access, and coordinate and expand community opportunities are a most promising approach to preventing alcohol and other drug problems. To meet the need for direction, the Office for Substance Abuse…

This article describes a program designed to increase community involvement with professional staff in the design and implementation of local educational programs and policies. (PD)

Described is the involvement of community agencies in the services of a new regional center for the mentally retarded in Virginia. (DB)

One of the weakest areas of professional preparation and professional in-service training and development is that of community development education. Each year, many professionally trained recruits go into the field of library service with only the most rudimentary notion of, and training for community, group, and power-structure analyses. Library…

Discusses current relevance of ideas of pragmatic thinkers and John Dewey. The pragmatic understanding of pluralism displays a sensitivity to difference but also emphasizes reaching out and communicating with what is other and different from ourselves. Without that, pluralism becomes chaos. (PS)

Richard Bernstein's John Dewey lecture is a political cautionary tale intended for the Left. It is the call for and justification of an emancipatory phronesis. The kind of questions Bernstein puts to others in his lecture, to obtain concrete social and political knowledge, must ultimately be put to Bernstein. (PS)

Because of the importance of career education to the future of today's handicapped and normal children, parents, businessmen, and others who are sensitive to the needs of the community should be involved in comprehensive career education programs. (Author)

This article emphasizes the need for community involvement in controlling drug abuse. It illustrates the type of New York State legislation that gave rise to the creation of Narcotic Guidance Councils. (Author)

Includes National School Board Association's guidelines for effective community involvement. (SP)