Focusing on fertility decline in Southern Appalachia, the article: (1) reviews recent attempts by social scientists to explain the phenomena; (2) indicates explanatory variables not previously considered; and (3) argues that the anthropological community-study approach is one way of investigating these variables. (Author/KM)

Identifies two major problems--first, both the formal and informal communication networks are extremely diffuse; and second, the interval from the start of a piece of research until its integration into the archival body of scientific knowledge is long--and presents some suggestions for alleviating them. (Author/JM)

Discusses two programs undertaken at engineering colleges in an attempt to transmit technology information from the body of knowledge to the potential users, especially small and medium sized companies. Concludes that the university mission can be partly fulfilled through the technology transfer program. (CC)

Author discusses the challenge facing non-urban universities to assume active roles in the development and revitalization of rural life. (Author/MB)

Regarding educational improvement as a continuing process based upon research, feedback, and modification, the effective utilization of educational research in the comprehensive ES'70 program is described as dependent upon the extent to which an effective network of interagency and interpersonal communications is developed. (JK)

Article asks whether research has failed the educational system, and whether money spent for research been spent for nothing. (ML)

A paper presented at the Second World Congress on Reading, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1-3, 1968; a 43-item bibliography is appended. (RD)

Discusses the testing experience as it affects the black community. Contends that nationally standardized tests have: (1) excluded the black population in establishing their norms; (2) become instruments for reinforcement of negative black images; and, (3) been used inadvertently or otherwise to bar blacks from higher education. (DM)

Cognition research can be used to improve social studies textbook design. Salient findings from research dealing with information processing styles, developmental differences, retention of key materials, and instructional principles are reviewed. Illustrative implications of these findings for the design of social studies texts are presented.…

Extracts highlights about the process and products of needs assessment from 40 major research studies conducted over the past five years. Discusses who conducts needs assessments and why, where needs assessments are going wrong, what has been learned from these studies, and what needs assessments cannot do. (AYC)

Recent work in the field of vocational education indicates that pooled data may be useful in (1) making decisions about the content of vocational education programs at orientation, exploratory, and preparatory levels, (2) evaluating the effects of vocational education on vocational maturity, and (3) teaching about career and curriculum…

This annotated bibliography, an outcome of the international colloquium on 'Research and Practice in Education: How to Strengthen Links between Research and Practice in Order to Strengthen General Education' organized by UNESCO in 1980, covers such areas as research policies, national trends, dissemination, training, and impact. Index is provided.…

Examined mass media coverage of research conducted in 1975 by James S. Coleman and others, which suggested that court ordered busing caused increased White flight, thus promoting greater residential segregation. Found that the White flight thesis was reported as a scientifically documented fact, despite the unavailability of published evidence and…