Critical to the success of current efforts to reform and restructure education and other community supports and services to improve the lives of children and their families is the way in which they are financed. This report of The Finance Project focuses on ways of using tax policies to help build strong local communities that can support families…

Traces the history of education in India and the policies for educational development that can have significance for Adult Education. (RK)

Author stresses that social changes are coming to developing countries in Asia, that this will lead to economic changes, and it is the job of adult educators to give direction to these changes. (Author/RK)

An article by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Latin America, United Nations, which discusses regional factors affecting rural and community development in the Caribbean, existing community development programs, and emerging trends in the region. (Author/DR)

The application of Western methods of development had impeded rather than encouraged progress in many countries. Cultural differences influence the success or failure of a program. (JB)

Excerpts from an address delivered to the annual convention of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity at the Americana Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, August 28, 1969. (JM)

Discusses the concept in the context of the conceptually designed and sequentially organized social studies instructional materials developed at the University of Illinois Social Studies Curriculum Study Center in cooperation with USOE/DHEW. Copies of the final report, An Evaluation Report of the Sequential Social Science Courses for the Secondary…

Increase in research and development (R&D) activity in the industrialized countries has resulted in the expansion of the arms production capacity of the Third World. The transfer of arms production systems is carried out through production under license, subcontracting, and joint production of weapons. Politico-social and economic effects are…

Discusses public libraries' major educational role and unique educational tools, which are indispensable for successful modernization in developing countries, and attempts to construct a model of the interaction between socioeconomic growth, adult education, and human resource development. Seven references and a 29-item selected bibliography are…

The winners of the Department of Education's Awards for Outstanding Vocational Education Programs are profiled. Eligible programs are either secondary or postsecondary, and address the areas of economic development, youth employment, equal access for women and minorities, and energy conservation. (SK)

Explores the effects on women of export processing, or the manufacture of exports in developing countries for sale overseas. Emphasizes that, in assessing export processing as a development strategy in Third World countries, its effects on the status of women must be considered to prevent their exploitation as a source of cheap labor. (Author/MJL)

Presents a statistical analysis of dependency of developing nations on more highly developed and industrialized nations and relates this dependency to various degrees of economic development. The analysis is based on the structural blockage argument (one of several dependency arguments contained in many versions of dependency theory). Emphasizes…