A review of Chinese adult and continuing education traces the experimentation, innovations, and philosophy of the last 50 years. The consolidation and perpetuation of the Communist social revolution through educational channels, various programs and institutions, and the effects of the 1966 Cultural Revolution are examined. (LH)

Suggestions are made for restructuring and reallocating existing fiscal, physical, and personnel resources in the present educational system to serve the needs of the adult learner. The economic recession makes the re-evaluation even more imperative. (LH)

Information from interviews with a parent coordinator at Eastside Elementary School, a teacher at Silver Lea Corridor School, and a student at Action High and the Planning Course is presented to show history, relationship and function with parents, teachers, students, and administrators in the Eugene, Oregon, public alternative school system. (JT)

The secretary of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education reviews the first year's work of the Council, a national independent organization for consultation and advice on adult and continuing education in England and Wales. (MF)

The author believes that, although there are negative aspects to the declining school enrollment in the primary schools in England (e.g., teacher redeployment, teacher unemployment, school closures), this phenomenon could give rise to a higher general standard of living and better educational opportunities for all. (KC)

Discusses the processes by which science education policy is determined at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Included are the degree of the involvement of different groups in policy-making, major issues related to the role of the NSF, and policies currently in effect. (HM)

From her forthcoming history of volunteers in the United States, the author outlines the development of our system of education and the concept of "learning by doing" from the Colonial period to 1900. She describes various organizations and their efforts in many causes, including child and student volunteerism. (MF)

Discusses efforts to develop an interdisciplinary cybernetic method, its transfer to different fields of group activities, and results achieved internationally. The 1978 program of activities designed for the promotion of the interdisciplinary cybernetic method by the International Association for Synthesis is also presented. (HM)

Presents the transformation in the models of science teaching from 1945 to the present; compares current science education in Japan with that in the United States. (Author/GA)

Presents a computer method for teaching chemical equilibrium concepts using material balance conditions and the minimization of the free energy. Method for the calculation of chemical equilibrium, the computer program used to solve equilibrium problems and applications of the method are also included. (HM)

Briefly describes what is meant by the English examination system, how it has come to take the forms that it does, and why such importance is attached to it. Thereafter, some problems and developments in examinations in art and design education are considered with six examination proposals summarizing the aims of art and design studies. (Author/RK)

Teacher centers, a growing movement in the United States, provide teachers with opportunities to exchange ideas, talk over problems, offer and take courses and workshops, shop for new materials or simply have a cup of coffee with colleagues. Discusses their development and the controversy surrounding it. (Author/RK)

A handful of educational reformers from each generation effectively muster and sustain public support in efforts to advance their visions for education. Here is an account of the efforts of Horace Mann and Henry Barnard acting as educational advocates and consensus builders who evoked public responsiveness and guided their constituencies toward…

Discusses the need for engineering education to keep pace with and participate directly in the development of technology and society. (SL)

Reviews Mali's experiments in training engineers and high-level technical personnel. (SL)