This document raises several discussion topics concerning low-income high school students in relation to Pell grants and Advanced Placement (AP) classes. It points out that bright, low-income high school students can perform college-level work either by taking Advanced Placement (AP) classes or by attending classes at a local college. AP classes…

Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) has identified a research agenda that connects the challenges that rural schools face in implementing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) provisions. The rural education research agenda crafted by McREL includes nine priority topics: (1) Opportunity to learn; (2) School size and student…

The need for a systems approach to community development is outlined by the dean of evening and continuing education at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois). (Editor)

An examination of the U.S. and Israel points up ways in which the emphasis on egalitarianism in the founding political doctrines of each has determined much in its institutional practices and patterns of behavior, and the repeated efforts of each to "equalize" hierarchies imposed seemingly by social necessity. (Author/JM)

Discussed the development of the community college and its relationship with its community. (RK)

Discusses some of the educational advantages of utilizing the resources of science museums in school science programs. (JR)

Article explores the necessity for recognizing the continuing educational needs of our older citizens and presents the benefits of satisfying those needs. (RK)

Article examines Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America,'' a book by Christopher Jencks and seven associates at the Center for Educational Policy Research at Harvard Graduate School of Education. (RK)

Discusses the paradoxical condition of democracy, the conflict between liberty and equality, and some of its implications for education, such as that in numerous schools and communities not only the old faith in educational institutions is missing--the very hope that they can survive is being eroded. (Author/JM)

The Studentersamfundets Fri Undervisning represents the efforts of young people, who donate their services for the advancement of educational opportunity and educational quality. Article describes one of the finest of these youth service programs. (Author/RK)

Programs providing vocational/technical opportunities for the deaf. (Editors)

Describes the development of a model curriculum for a joint five-year program in engineering and social work at Washington University. (CC)

Summarizes and assesses the empirical findings from social science research in the areas of integrated and compensatory education, considers the role of the social scientist in policy-making in these areas, and concludes that this role should yield to a principle of voluntarism which would permit maximum citizen choice. (Author/JM)

Beginning with the Brown vs. Topeka'' case of 1954 and continuing to the Equal Educational Opportunity bill of 1972, the author traces a series of court cases, laws, pronouncements and research studies concerning educational opportunity and the implications of the busing concept for desegregation and integration. (Author/JM)