Discusses three ways to gain middle management support for supervisory training: measuring training results, increasing top management commitment for training, and involving management in the training process. Analyzes the degree of support provided by four types of managers and indicates which strategies work best in gaining the support of each…

Attitude changes in undergraduates enrolled in a foundations of education course assigned to two different types of reading material--controversial and persuasive, and traditional--were examined. Lasting attitudinal changes were found in students under the first condition. (Author/JKS)

Demonstrates use of a multivariate analysis in determining school attendance patterns. Such a method (1) reveals the differential relation between school attendance and key social and demographic factors; (2) allows reexamination of earlier findings; (3) demonstrates the major relationships between attendance and early industrialization. (KC)

Describes early efforts in English educational history at initiating development in design education and presents some more recent discussion papers through a research team at the Royal College of Art on what a good definition of "design" is and what changes should take place in the curriculum to bring design education into the…

Detects a disturbing trend toward the control of teenagers' lives in rereading the 1893 "Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies, Harry Rivlin's 1936 "Education for Adjustment", and the 1974 study, "Youth: Transition to Adulthood". (Editor/RK)

This research is based on a study of 19 interest groups in a four-year period of intensive activity, 1968-1972, in New York City. It is focused on the tactics of the interest groups operating in different arenas and on efforts to ascertain the effectiveness of these groups in reaching their goals. (Author/RK)

The keynote address at the 1976 Farnham (England) Conference on the European Bureau of Adult Education examines educational needs of the "forgotten people": those who need basic education; those living in areas of multiple deprivation, especially in cities; workers, especially in factories; and immigrants or migrant workers. Some current trends in…

Discusses the major findings of the ninth annual survey of "The Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools", a joint project of the Gallup Poll and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. (Editor/RK)

Examines the significance of a functional approach to English instruction, mediating public demands for a "back to basics" by emphasizing four curricular objectives that reflect the varied purposes for language usage. (RL)

Although American schools are not as good as they might be, most indicators suggest that they are better now than in the past, that they are better than schools in other nations, and that they are generally successful in meeting the commonly accepted goals of education. (JG)

A brief statistical survey of scientific studies was carried out to discover the major trends concerning the functions of a university as well as attitudes toward scientific studies between 1850 and 1900. Further significant changes during the period, 1900-1914, were investigated. (Author/RK)

Results of a questionnaire administered to 800 registered nurses in Illinois indicated significant differences in identified learning needs and participation in continuing education according to characteristics such as age, income, nursing program, and employment position. (TA)