An interview survey of a statewide sample of community members revealed local perceptions of health problems. While community residents differed slightly in their perceptions of local health problems and the social agencies thought to possess the ability to assist in the solution of these problems, they agreed almost unanimously on the extent to…

A consumer education course, offered to ninth-graders in a predominantly Mexican American community, is briefly described. (RM)

The following analysis traced some of the history of general education in the two-year college, with an eye toward explaining why general education has reached its present low status in the hierarchy of community college concerns. (Author/RK)

Article traces the history of public schools and examines the reasons for growing interest in nonpublic schools. (Editor)

The open campus in schools is defined and its implications on student achievement, facilities utilization, faculty size, curriculum, and student discipline are discussed. (DN)

Article present a brief inventory of some issues which will demand a reassessment and a change in teacher performance. (Author)

This article discusses the ways in which environmental studies are being introduced into primary and secondary schools. (Author)

Offers guidelines for educators in the affective domain of socialization, democratization, values in education, and morality. (Author/DN)

Urges educators to make education transformative as well as transmissive by suggesting education should work toward making man have the faith and power to direct his future. Asks educators to prophecy urgently, magnetically, and then fulfill those prophecies. (Author/DN)

Comparative study of teachers at arts colleges and teachers at public and private secondary schools; recommendations are made. (SP)

The dual roles of educational institutions in maintaining an environment for objective, critical and informed inquiry, and an active engagement in the processes of social change must be developed to complement one another and serve as a means of integrating the educational system into American society instead of alienating it. (MB)

A statement of USOE's intent to emphasize vocational education and a proposal to completely change the high school curriculum structure so that every young person completing Grade 12 will be ready to enter higher education or rewarding employment. Address given by Dr. Marland to the National Association of Secondary School Principals, January 23,…

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; includes abstracts of ERIC-processed documents pertinent to this topic. (RD)

Discussion of characteristics of students attending urban universities drawn from analysis of data collected by the American Council on Education and a sample of urban university freshmen, all of whom entered college in Fall 1965. (IR)

Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president, speaks out on the importance of education in a democracy and on the declining support for public schools, and reaffirms the labor force's traditional support for equal educational opportunity. Future workers must be ready for service-oriented and technological occupations; they need the best education possible.…