One hundred and sixty abstracts of articles appearing in periodicals and newspapers make up this quarterly publication on education in India. Many topics are covered, some of which are policy and planning, academic achievement, administration and organization, adult education, curriculum and educational psychology. The abstracts are indexed by the…

This document presents a compilation of suggested research and development initiatives abstracted from current educational R&D planning and policy documents. The objectives is to create a reasonably thorough picture of the current state of proposed possibilities and priorities in educational R&D. Each initiative abstract includes, whenever…

The annotated bibliography lists 111 entries of selected educational materials from Pakistan covering the period from January through March 1972. Entries are listed alphabetically by author under the following thirty-one categories; 1) administrative, organization and financing of education; 2) agricultural education; 3) childhood education; 4)…

This paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the normative and empirical elements of four approaches to political education. The analysis is conducted by identifying the central assumptions, value commitments and the empirical theoretical structure of each approach and by making comparisons across alternatives. The findings of the analysis…

In this volume are surveyed some problems which arise in Latin American countries in the belief that even though solutions to them may differ somewhat from one country to another the conditions in which they arise are sufficiently similar to make comparisons possible and useful. After describing the uneven provision of schools for different…

In June 1970, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) collected information concerning the legislation (both enacted and proposed), the outstanding educational achievements, and major problem areas of the States in education. The compilation of this data in its present form represents an updating of a similar survey conducted by ECS in…

Fourteen selected speeches dating from 1955 to 1969 cover a broad range of information relevant to the history of language instruction in American schools. A state-of-the-art review of language instruction, written in 1955, precedes papers on: (1) language proficiency; (2) school and college language program cooperation; (3) motion pictures in…

This review of recent trends in Spanish education focuses on governmental attempts to update educational standards by extending the compulsory school-attendance age, by eradicating adult illiteracy, and by constructing new schools. The report points out that the expansion of Spanish economic programs has shifted educational objectives to emphasize…

One in a series of publications designed to disseminate information concerned with international agricultural development, this occupational study on improvement of training of high-talent manpower is presented to serve rural sociology both in the United States and the rest of the world by reporting research on the profession of rural sociology.…

This bulletin is the Office of Education's first one on education in Rumania, and the subject is presented in its historical and current political, economic, social, and cultural setting, from a non-communistic perspective. Nine chapters present the country's background, a history of its educational system from 1832, and detailed descriptions of:…

Two important elements of a method of designing instructional alternatives (MODIA) are comprehensively discussed in this paper. The "Questionnaire for Stating General Policy" is briefly reviewed to reveal how goals, student population variations, and operations must be accommodated before specifying instructional strategies. The actual…

This volume contains twenty-one innovative economic education experiences which were selected from the 1971-72 entries in the Kazanjian Foundation Awards Program for the teaching of economics. In these short articles teachers describe in an orderly fashion their programs of originality, the class situation, scope and sequence, goals, motivational…

The report of the International Commission on the Development of Education aims to assist governments in formulating national strategies for the development of education in a changing universe. Emphasis is upon the need for an international community which reflects common problems, trends, and goals; the promotion of democracy through education;…

An annotated bibliography is presented in essay form of sources concerning Brazil's literacy program for adults, MOBRAL (Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetizacao), and its implications for the country's economy. General sources on literacy training are followed by works concerning Brazil's political system. Descriptions of the MOBRAL program, mostly…

A Symposium was held in May of 1972 to assist in the resolution of the varied problems effecting the advance of educational technology. Most of the papers presented at the symposium dealt with the current situation of various aspects of computer assisted instruction (CAI) throughout Canada. Other papers covered CAI centralization, minicomputers,…