The 1966 Goals for Public Education in Texas are preprinted as a good statement on educational purposes. (MM)

The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme speaks with reasoned optimism about a new and much better world in the Second Development Decade. (EB)

Describes a public-private co-operative program aimed at retaining a quality environment while providing for population expansion and economic development of the Mid-Hudson region. (AL)

This article explores the feasibility of rational planning, using as evidence the regional planning experience of the Appalachian program. (Author)

Discusses the means to improve the overall flow of knowledge, the relationship of research and development to economic prosperity, problems of keeping managers up-to-date and providing greater coordination on a national scale, and improving the information flow to developing countries. (Editor/JB)

The real retraining of the American work force will not come about through massive, federally operated job training programs. It will come about only when employers are able to look forward to a promising economic future that requires highly trained and motivated employees and that offers real jobs. (Author/SSH)

Discusses factors contributing to structural changes in developing countries and concludes that unemployment and underemployment are best countered by generating new productive activities, developing economic linkages, and stimulating an increase in the number of workplaces. Advocates cooperation among developing nations. (JOW)

Using data from 1965-76, examines Taiwanese attitudes toward family formation norms and preferences, personal control of the family building process, and traditional family values (including preferences for sons or daughters). Discusses implications for fertility transition theory. (Author/GC)

Posits that work done by women in providing services for their families and society is not economically rewarded, is a distortion of reality, and one of the main causes of discrimination against women. Discusses the role of women in the economic growth of United States, United Kingdom, Hungary, Mauritius, USSR, and Egypt. (JOW)