Describes an experimental design using a control group with pre- and post-testing to determine the effectiveness of the project materials for seventh grade students. After controlling for differences in group IQ and reading achievement, the experimental group scored significantly higher in achievement and positive attitudes. (DF)

Outlines outcomes of organization development in the York County Board of Education, Aurora, Ontario. (DS)

Work and conclusions of one of a series of seminars and the international workshop held in May 1972 in Sweden. (Editor)

A sample of environmental impact statements required by federal law discloses that all actions proceeded essentially unchanged, despite adverse comments and predictions of environmental degradation. However, the process allows for public scrutiny and pressure which may eventually increase the likelihood of meaningful environmental safeguards. (BL)

One of a series of papers commenting on the report, Learning to be,'' submitted to Unesco by the Commission, which clarifies the educational crisis in countries of the Third World and calls for change in educational policy. (JB)

This article emphasizes that the report of the Commission states that the demand for education today is so great that present institutionalized systems are and will be in the future incapable of absorbing it. (JB)

A critical analysis of the Commission's report reminding readers that there is a great gulf between the ease with which progressive reforms can be proposed and the difficulty with which these reforms are sold in the market place of politics to conservative and cost-conscious governments and people. (Author/JB)

This article is intended to acquaint the rank and file teacher, methods specialist, worker at teacher's advanced training institutes, and instructors of pedagogy at pedagogical higher educational institutions with the proceedings at the Fourth Congress of Psychologists. (JB)

Data were collected from forty-two schools to obtain background information on teachers, to guide the teachers in recording daily classroom activities, and to establish procedures for the visit by the investigators. (DF)

A biography of Copernicus emphasizing his argument for a heliocentric model of the solar system is presented. (DF)

This section of the annual report on the chemical industry presents data on industry earnings, sales, and spending related to: rates of return, stock prices, 50 largest chemical makers, ten-year record, funds, debt, capital spending, industry and company data. (PR)